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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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PRAEPATIO
cessatum est unquam puonari cum barbaris, dum subige.
rentur: sed visum est id non posse fieri, nist limes RO-
manus extenderetur, es fieret Cermonia tota provin
cia. Scd nec ille conatus procellie, quanquam ad
gentem debilitandam sedecim millia erronum abdu-
cta, disperlaque per provincias, novem Reges diver-
Torum populorum adpedes Caelaris prostracijacuerint,
e quacrinsentis hominum millibus casis sedecim
millia armatorum oblara lint. Inexhaulta interim 8
invicta etit crans Rhenum haec C ermania pars, ne-
que a Diocletiano _ Maximiano, neque à Constanti.
no M. Juliano. Valentiniano, _ toc inde Calarum
exercitibus importatis, vel haec sola regiointer Rhe.
num ec Vilursim, quam Westphaliam nunc dicimus,
in prorinciae formam le redisi palla elt, Orbe prope
toto obltupelcente, qui in Romanorum potellatem e
provinciarum descriptionem jam venerat. Donec
verlis deinde armis, mutacoque Fortunae curtu, hi iple
Germaniincer Rhenum _ Vilurgim, Cumpto Franco.
rum nomine, tanquam libertatis liono, luperatoque
Rhenilimite, Calliam primum Pharamundo, Clodio-
ne, ee Meroreo Resibus, ac deinde caetera regna tran.
cici juris ee imperii facerent, iplamque Cermaniam
reflexis per Rhenum armis lubiserent, _ Christianam
relisionem primi in Saxoniam importarent.
Jam vero exhac ipla Francica d Saxonica hicto.
ria quanta monumentorum copia & gloria (e ex Pader-
Bornensi diaece(i objicit: E quantum utraque jurisdi-
ctione, aera ex cirilis se extendit, metiaris. Nam ex