Der Ackermann aus Böhmen

Transcriber’s Note:
The original book had two different sets of footnotes. Notes to the main text were in a separate ‘Anmerkungen’ section. Notes to the ‘Abhandlung’ section appeared at the bottom of each page of that section. For consistency in this e-text, all footnotes have been grouped together, renumbered from 1 to 106, and moved to the end of the book.
Footnote 66 (in the current numbering) had been placed immediately after footnote 62 in the original. A close examination has shown this to be an error, and this footnote now appears in its correct location.
A table of contents has been created. The original headings of the major sections (e.g., ‘Abhandlung’, ‘Anmerkungen’) are used for this purpose. The very first section, containing the main text and critical apparatus, did not have a heading in the original book, and therefore the heading ‘Text’ has been created in order to have a complete and consistent structure. For the reader’s convenience a table of contents has been created for the ‘Text’ section and another for the ‘Abhandlung’ section.
The critical apparatus to Chapter 1 points out that the chapter heading ‘Das erst capitel’ is missing. This heading has been added to the e-text version so that it is now like ‘Das ander capitel’, ‘Das dritt capitel’ and subsequent chapters.
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