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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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AD LEOTOREM.
Sed_ pacis lunttempora, quae anre bella semper quae-
renda lunt Principi, ne continuis armorum terroribus
urseantur populi, exhonesti oriihorae, _ scriarum cu-
rarum laxammenea Cunt interponenda, quibus aut con-
centa mensremictenda, aut instruenda iis scienciarum
lublidiis, quibus sc aliosque regat. Nihil autem ad
Principem Formandum praeter regalem illam philolon
Phiam, aut honeltius, aueurilius, quam historiam, la-
pientes semper praeceperunt vixi, quod ca non ram
Principem oblectet, quam doceat, instruat que ad subli-
ene ex divinum illud munus vica dione fustinendum,
ihil blandiendo; nihil celando. Hlocinstirato Lirius
hiltoriam luam agorellus, pretacusque: Wud praecipue mio tib. F.
in coonitione rerum salutare ac fruoiferum, omnis te
exempli documenta in illustri posita monumento in
tueri; inde tibi tua que Reip. quod imitere capias, in
de faedum inceptu. fcedum exitu, quodvites. Zeno-
nem philolophum percontatus quispiam, qu’a ratione
Princeps Felix esle polsie; Si in superiorem, inquiebat;
atatem oculos intendat. Si nimirum res majorum
preclare seltas, si veterum monurmenta pervolvat.
Cacitus cum libros d monumenta clarissunorum vi-
In proce-
rorum in Foro exuri videret: Io scilicet ione, ingc- In Dita
muic, vocem populi Romani, Cs libertatem Senatus, 6g aericolo
conscientiam generis humani aboleri. Sane qui hictoria-
rumlibros ePrincipum manibus suberahumt, illi custo-
dem temporum, memoriam omnis anciguitatis, majo-
ru luorum preclarissimam imaginem, lucem reritatis,
ma-