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Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself – the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein – has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, [https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/wittgenstein/ The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge], and the work of the [http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]. Much of the digitalized content has been released under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license].

Some parts of the ''Nachlass'' were carefully prepared for publication by Wittgenstein himself, and it is fair to assume that he would have had them printed had he lived longer. The ''Philosophical Investigations'', for which he even wrote a preface in 1945, are the best example of a text thoroughly crafted by Wittgenstein and ready for the press by the time he passed away. In other cases, however, his notes were only published as books after undergoing extensive editing: this is the case, for example, with the lectures he held in Cambridge and the private conversations, that we have received through notes taken by his students and interlocutors. There are as well midway cases, texts such as ''On Certainty'', ''Remarks on Colours'', ''Zettel'', ''Philosophical Grammar'', ''Culture and Value''; in order to prepare this texts for publication the editors selected, grouped, and sorted the remarks.