MS 138 is a casebound volume measuring 330 x 214 mm. Wittgenstein has included dates between 15 January and 20 May 1949 in the text. The binding is red buckram quarter bound with red leather and has a mutilated label reading ‘Manuscript Volume ‘Band S” Jan 1949 - March 19… Oxford’ and ‘RED. 1-9 II’ in red crayon below. Internally, there are two card flyleaves at the front and back and 142 leaves, each ruled with 38 lines with a double red line at the top of the page and 2 vertical red lines to the left of the page and 4 to the right. The volume has been foliated ff. 1-143 by the printer using a stamp and ff. 1-144 by another hand. Ff. 34 onwards are blank.

The text is in German with some coded remarks, written in pen with blue and blue/black inks. Openings 19 and 20 have rust stains from paper clips and on opening 30 two slips are attached to the page to cover coded remarks.

Archival note

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.