This chapter discusses about the description of two manuscripts MS 139a and MS 139b. It explains about the typescript TS 207. The manuscript of MS 139a is held at the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. It comprises 12 loose sheets written in pencil, both in recto and in verso, with many corrections and marks. The content is oriented in landscape position with the original binding edge at the bottom. The manuscript of MS 139b is held (...) at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. The manuscript comprises 10 loose sheets written in pencil, both in recto and verso, except for the last page, which is written solely in recto. The typescript TS 207 is held at the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. The text bears neither title nor date. They are numbered with Arabic numerals typed in the upper left corner and handwritten in the upper right corner. (shrink)

This chapter discusses evidence for the claim that the protodraft was written prior to MS 139a and that MS 139b is the text that Wittgenstein read when he gave his talk. It begins with some introductory remarks about the transcriptions of the four versions. The chapter discusses the time relation between versions and present textual evidence that the proto‐draft was written prior to MS 139a. It discusses on the claim that MS 139b is the text of Wittgenstein's lecture.

This chapter presents a facsimile of manuscript (MS) 139a pages 15 and 16 of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics, one of the two surviving manuscripts of the so‐called Lecture on Ethics delivered to The Heretics, a Cambridge student society. The text is in English in pencil on loose sheets of 204x330 mm. The text in the facsimile images is presented in normal text below each image to provide the reader a better understanding of the content in the images.