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# Title: LBr. 641 · Mentzel, Chr.
# Folio 1v, page id DE-611-HS-859738:0002
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# Lines: 25 recognised, mean confidence 0.98
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onem optime nactus sis in P. Bouvet, qui ex china nuper
ad nos in Zuropam accescit, mox eo rediturus, ut qui tibi
haec omnia mittere possit. Ad quae respondeo: Si tibi vel alicui
alteri volupe sit addiscendi linguam hinicam, tam ratione pro-
nuntiationis, quam scripturae etlectionis, is sibi afferri cu-
ret Lexica dinica Characteristica Cu Guei dicta, ut discat
exinde Sinicos Characteres cognoscere et pingere; dein-
ceps habeat ad manus R. R. P. P. Lexica hinica Characte-
ristico-Latina vel alia Europaeorum lingua scripta iuxta
ordinem Alphabeticum, qualia apud P.P. in China obuiam
prostant, ethoc est praecipuum requisitum ad linguam sinc-
cam acquirendam s: quio habito reliqui libri Sinici possunt
intelligi tam in Historicis Sinicis, quam in raturalibus
Medicina; et hi quidem ex Herbario eorum magno; illi
autem ex Armalibus eorum libris magnis et multis.
Nos suc in Bibliotheca Electorali istis libris non indi-
gemus,quia iis nobis prospectum satis est ex Batavia
aDomino Cleyero. Caeterum quoniam ego arbitror Andreae
Mulleri defuncti Clauem hinicam nihil aliud fuisse, quam
notitiam exquisitam literaturae hinicae, cujus requisita su-
perius indicaui, quae nullibi melius reperitur quam in et a-
pud hinas ipsos, tanquam inventores; putem ego, clavem
Nullerianam nihil noui aut arcarri continuisse, quam cla-
meam meam, quam possideo, et tibi, si Deus vitam et oti-
um