It was first printed in 1956. My copy is from the 3rd printing, 1974, by Herald Press.Josh wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:45 pmWhat year is it?Neto wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 1:05 pm I could also add that, in regards to the "Wenger Edition" of The Complete Writings of Menno Simons, I DID eventually find a ragged copy, which I purchased for the amazing price of 25 cents. (It was that ragged.) (I mentioned this intention in the last post I made in this thread, just above Temp's.
I was quite surprised, and pleased, to find such an additional copy here in Ohio, because Mennonites here do not tend to be very fond of him, or of his writings.)
My oldest son and I completely dismantled it, and he scanned the entire book. I do not, however, feel free to "distribute" the PDF version to anyone who does not own a printed copy, because I'm pretty sure it is still under copyright.
I tried to find copyright info, but I don't know how to do that for sure. I found that it was published as an ebook and as a printed copy (paperback) in August 2010, apparently by MennoMedia.
I saw a full text scan at
https://archive.org/stream/mennosimonsh ... l_djvu.txt
but it has not been cleaned up (checking for scan errors, removing hyphens inside of words, etc.). This is a VERY time-consuming process, especially for a volume of this size. (I have also seen the Martyrs' Mirror available as such, but the one I saw was in this same state. You really have to have a printed copy in order to do this type of corrections. There is also the task of marking the footnotes in such a way that they do not appear to be a part of the main text.
The copy of Menno Simons we scanned from was from the original printing. The scans would have probably been better if done from a later printing, but dismantling the book made it much easier to get the pages straight, etc. My son at least started on the process of converting the text to a file type that he could load on his book reader, but I don't know if he has finished it.
I think this has been posted here (or on MennoDiscuss) previously, but the older Dutch to German to English version (by Funk) is available at
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AGV904 ... 1?view=toc
as well.