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# Title: LBr. 426 · Hottinger
# Folio 12r, page id DE-611-HS-974410:0023
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 13v); this page is its right half.
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 529, 2026-09-11T12:09:59Z — 29 lines, status machine
# Lines: 29 recognised, mean confidence 0.91
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Monsieur jean jaques Hottinger Thcologien insigne a Z urick
Wr Maxime Reverende et
Amplme
para sesque
dudum obstrictum novo insigui beneficio obligast
misso praeclaro luo Historiae Helveticae saciae opene, ubi
certat rerum ubertas cum accurata scribentis diligentia
Neque est cui de stylo deprecere, qui mihi videtur non carere
elegantia, et habere puritatem Germaniaae dictionis. Neque
illis ego accedo qui vocabula leutonica uni dialecto alligant:
quin potius Grammaticam quidem unam esse velim; sed
Lexicon collatitium, verbis et Helvetiorum et
et provincialibus nostris, ubi vim et gratiam habent non
exclusis. A nescio quo accepi olim apud Helvetios foedus
defensivum et offensivum dictum schaz uno Truq verbordnis
quid elegintius nervosiusque? Ac vellem verba vestra propria
ab aliquo philoglotto colligserentur
qui libi praeclari
gatias debemus importunitati adversarii luo
vel certe pargenteo
Operis occasionem dedit. Assurgitis vos in aurea ristiam sin, tempora
quando septentrio adhuc profano erroresqualebat. Itaque apud vos
haulatim moliti sunt Romam erjores apud pos formati jam
lem
parte et uno impetu cum ipsa religione sunt infusi. Et vestrae hice
antiquitas multo plura majoraque habet testimonia veritatis. Cumque
sic
convent
en pm merna pre siummur tur pumer equm bossiar