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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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AD LECTOREM
Possit diruere, aut innumerabilis
Annorum series, es fusa temporum.
Res ardua, inquic Plinius, vetustis novitatem da Pras. ad
se novis auctoritatem, obsoletis nitorem, obscuris lu. ese.
cem. Pertresit haec contentushic labor, e gracus in
Carolum M. Francorum que proceres animus, quo-
rum armis religio Christiana in hassaxonix provin-
cias primum inrecta cl. Toc ab Tlachumaro Fpi-
lcopi, tot literati ad hanc usque atatem riri; nemo
tamentam d. l. senti cura _ prxestanti opere id munus
Proamore patrix pro gloria sentis sux lulcepit, quod
nunc co acceprius, quo illustrius ab ipsius Principis
ingenio e manu polteritas excipiet. Libet nunc de
FFRDINANDO pronunciare, Quod Romani apud
Ciceronem de Varrone: Nos in nostra urbe pereori
nantes errantes que tanquam hospites eramus, tui libri
quasi domum deduxerunt, ut possemus aliquando, quin
e
 ubi essemus, aonoscere.
Reculipaucis, Lector, quid Princeps in monumen.
iis uispraestiterit, nunc iplum Principem polteritatis
monumentum proponerelicebit, non ab iplorireu-
cum aspectu, quibus adprincipatum perrenit, qua ubc.
rius ex sublimius scribendi genus polcunt: led a don
Ctrina, e mulciplici scientiarum comprehentione, qua
praecipua semper Principum in subernando adiuien-
ta ornamentaque Fuerunt. Elis ille aprima aetate per
omnem liberalium artium cultum ad lelcentiim
transesit, insenio semper Facili expeditoque, industi à
CF. QMI