# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/822877147:0023 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/822877147:0023?run=74 # Title: Hermanni Conringii De Origine Iuris Germanici Liber Unus (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 82) # Folio 1, page id 822877147:0023 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=822877147&page=23 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/822877147/jpgs/default/00000023.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 29 lines, status machine # Lines: 29 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. IERMAMEE DMNRINOI DF (2 F R M A N LL PIBER VNVS CAPVY Gentes Germanicas olim nullas Lezes seri- ptas observasse. Flces Germanica initio, ut literarum secreca tantum sed e usum omnem brarunc, ita ec nullas leges scriptas ob- servarere. Ecenim sero in universum apud Germanosliterae, ipsa scriptionis clementa, caeperune, nec aliunde quam a Romanis aC ceptae: quo tempore jam plurimis seculis Aererat licerata doctrinae sloria apud Alix e Atricae multos populos, cum primis in Crecis, quos Romani exceperune, Aoruerat. Ne- que verotuto pollumustidere iis, qua de antiguis, nelcio guibus, Germanicarum quarumris gentium characteribus, cum alii, cum in opere luarum percorinationum vir labori Osisimus Samvel Durchassus Anolus, prodiderunc. Fortee nim ex seprentrionalium Runica literatura quam vocane nato jamdudum Christo caepit. Nullo cerre indicio trmiter antiquiora ejus exordia probareris. Ouamris aurem recentiore insticuto literae a Germanis Caeperinc excoli, intereatamen habica apud illos indubie le- sum aliqua ratio fuit; uc sine quibus nulla societas ne latro- num quidem coent. Ipsi vero Germanorum hostes olim, ju- lius Calai ee Cornelius Tacitus, quibus antiquissimam rC. TUM