DILW/Voranmerkungen

1. The English translation of IL was made from the new edition of the Latin text, appended to the present volume. The translation of Ap. was made from Nicolai de Cusa Opera Omnia, Vol. II, edited by Raymond Klibansky (Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1932). A number of references in the notes have also been adapted from this volume.

2. All references to Nicholas’s works are to the Latin texts—specifically to the following texts in the following editions:

A. Heidelberg Academy Edition: De Coniecturis, De Deo Abscondito, De Quaerendo Deum, De Filiatione Dei, De Dato Patris Luminum, Apolo- gia Doctae Ignorantiae, Idiota (1983 edition) de Sapientia, de Mente, de Staticis Experimentis, De Pace Fidei, De Venatione Sapientiae.

B. Heidelberg Academy Editions as found in the Latin-German edition of Felix Meiner Verlag’s Philosophische Bibliothek: De Docta Ignorantia, De Beryllo.

C. Banning Press Editions: De Visione Dei, De Possest, De Li Non Aliud. D. Strasburg Edition as reprinted by W. de Gruyter: all remaining Cusanus works, unless specified explicitly as Paris Edition.

For some treatises the reference indicates book and chapter; for others, margin number and line; for still others, page and line. Readers should have no difficulty determining which is which when they consult the particular Latin text. For example, “DI II, 6 (125:19-20)” indicates De Docta Ignorantia, Book II, Chap. 6, margin number 125, lines 19 and 20.

3. The margin numbers appearing in the translation of Ap. correspond to the pagenumbers in Vol. II of Nicolai de Cusa Opera Omnia. And the margin numbers in the translation of IL correspond to the margin numbers in the new edition of the Latin text; they also correspond to the page numbers in the earlier edition published by E. Vansteenberghe. Insofar as possible the line lengths have also been made to correspond, so that all references to page and line of Vansteenberghe’s edition can be treated as references to section and line of the new edition.

4. References to Aristotle’s works include, in parentheses, the standard Bekker numbers as indicated in the Loeb Library editions of the Greek texts. However, since the Loeb Library volumes have more lines per Bekker page than do the Belcker texts themselves, an improvisation was necessary in citing. Accordingly, a reference such as “De Anima 2 (423a23-24.2)” is meant to indicate not only lines 23 and 24 in the Loeb version but also the two lines following line 24 (both of which precede line 25 as marked in the Loeb margin).

5. Any Latin words inserted into the English translations for purposes of clarification are placed in parentheses—except that nouns whose case has been changed to the nominative are bracketed.

6. References to the Psalms are to the Douay version (and, in parentheses, to the King James’ version).

7. In the Latin text of IL, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling (except for proper names) are editorialized. In particular, the references to Scripture are editorialized.