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# Title: Monumenta Paderbornensia (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 83)
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PRFFATIO
Des viros commorit, ut non modo TTistorias lacras
protanasque diligenter pervolverent, sed e scriptis
luisres geltas polteritaci consecrarent. Duo in nu-
mero, cum innumeros percenlere pollem, habemus
cum primis Dichmarum Mersburgensem, et Ottonem
Frilingensem Epilcopos, Imperiique Principes; uter-
que ex Marchionum tamilia, non indlecorum censuit
claritudininominis X muneris dignitati historias scri-
bere. Nec domeltica delunt, quorum restigiis insi
Ctac hic Princeps: Olirarius & Willebrandus Pader-
bornenles Fpilcopi, poltquam in Palaestinam profecti
tocum illud iter lacrum, e omnem illam Christiano-
rum expedicionem, quae apud Principem, inter extera
monumenta antiquitatum, tempori cdenda alserran-
cur, fidi e praeclari eorum remporum llistorici Cua
manu conscriplerunt; Alter e prima nobilitate de
Metropolitana Coloniensis F Cclesix Scholaltico, alter
CConitum Oldenbursensium Familia hujus loci An
tiltes, non minus ingenii, quam virium opibus clarus
esseroluit. Ouem narrandi finem hic Fecero: (I vel
omnes illustrium familiarum viros, vel Rcclelia Pex-
Tules proterre velim, qui Pliltoriarum monumenta z
Cc elaborata magno primum luo tructu, cum majori
etiam polteritaris bono, cum immortali gloria reli-
querunt. Feo dum omnes auctores revolvo, qui
de Flistorix dignitate de utilitate scriplerune, nullum
prope Cudiorum genus Principi magis commenda-
cum praescriptum que reperio, quam Flistoriam. In-
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