Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE WOBKS OF MEISTEB ECKEHABT 1. The Latin Works If the student of Eckehart's works were to use Preger as his sole authority, he would be led to conclude that Eckehart wrote in German only, that he is par excellence the German mystic, the "Father of German Speculation," for Preger makes no mention of his Latin works, no reference to those who, like Nicholas of Cusa and Trithemius, have examined them. Nicholas of Cusa1 tells us that he saw many commentaries by Eckehart on nearly all the books of Sacred Scripture, many sermons, ques- tiones disputatae, etc.; also a short treatise, a reply to his critics, in which he explains his doctrines, and shows that his readers did not understand him aright. Trithemius cites a good, though incomplete list of Eckehart's works.2 These Lt tin writings had fallen into oblivion until Denifle, in August, 1880, discovered some important fragments in a manuscript (Cod. Amplon. Fol. n. 181) belonging to the library of Erfurt. Denifle himself has given a detailed account of the outcome of his researches.3 The greater part of these writings belong to Eckehart's Opus tripartitum. According to the Prologue, this consisted of three parts. The first, the Liber or opus propo- sitionum, contained more than one thousand propositions of a theologico-philosophical nature distributed through fourteen different treatises, whose titles are enumerated in the Prologue. The Liber propositionum was known to Trithemius and is probably the work he calls Positionum suarum liber, hence the title in Pfeiffer, Liber positionum. The second part, the Opus, or liber questionum, was 'Nicholas of Cusa, Apologia doctae ignorantiae. Parisiis, 1514 I., fol. 390. 3Trithemius De script, ecclesiasticis, cap. 537. Cf. Denifle. op. cit. II, p. 418. Denifle,...