Marginalia to Being and Time - Religious Studies at Stanford ...

The first inner page (flyleaf) / innere Umschlagblatt
A. Recto / Vorderseite
[In the upper left-hand corner:]
BP 78
[At the top-middle of the page, signed in ink:]
Edmund Husserl
[In the upper right-hand corner, Husserl’s catalogue number:]
D-7 23
[In the middle of the flyleaf, in Heidegger’s hand in cursive, in ink:]
“For me the greatest clarity was always the greatest beauty.” 24
Lessing.
April 8, 1927. 25
M. Heidegger.
23 This is the catalogue indication that Husserl gave the work for location in his own personal
library.
24
“Die grösste Deutlichkeit war mir immer die grösste Schönheit.”
25 This date may, or may not, tell us when Heidegger presented the volume to Husserl. From
March 2 until April 19, 1927, Heidegger spent the academic holiday at his cabin at Todtnauberg,
in the Black Forest. He may have visited Husserl in Freiburg for his sixty-eighth birthday, which
fell on Friday, April 8, 1927, and, if so, it is possible he gave Husserl the copy of SZ-1, with the
inscription, on that date. (See Heidegger/Jaspers Briefwechsel, p. 74, no. 41, and p. 76, no. 43;
also Heidegger/Blochmann, Briefwechsel, p. 19, no. 13; Husserl, Briefwechsel, IV, p. 140).