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# Catalogue record: 10183 — Friedrich Lucae an Leibniz
# Incipit: Miraris fortasse silentium meum. Quippe per mensem, aut quod excurrit,
# Date: 1691-10-18 (91-10-08)
# Sender: Lucae — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,7 N. 205
# Other printings: -Gerland, Briefwechsel mit Papin, 1881, S.179 (teilw.). -frei dt.übers.: Lucä, Friedr.: Der Chronist Friedr. Lucä, Frkf. 1854, S. 311.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=10183&katnr=29811
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-856460
# Title: LBr. 578 · Lucae
# Folios: Bl. 8–9 (from the shelfmark LBr 578 Bl. 8-9): 4 pages, canvases 15–18, page ids DE-611-HS-856460:0015 to DE-611-HS-856460:0018
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-856460&page=15
# Lines: 78 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 8r — DE-611-HS-856460:0015
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ilissime
cellentissime Fautot
Aonoraciosime
Siraris fortasse silentium meum. Quippe per mensem aut quod exeurrit, Tuje
honoratissimis Letteris d: VX. SEBEMO: in Metropoli Brunsuicensium expressis re
spondere hactenus supersedi. Losti occupationes nostras quae calamum seripsu
rientem mopinanter saepe sufflaminant. Hlac vice vero nec illa potius iter
it
ad Syrigetas me habebat districtum. Videram ex commercio literarum
crebro, Optimi Bomini Laullini canc
p et eruditionem felici sociatam
temperamento. Sed hac occasione innotuit misi ipsius frons, vultus et linqua
Animadverto illum non esse ex iis qui aureos montes polliceri solent et tandem
pro thesauris carbones. Merentur sane Integritas et hunanitas Amici Nostri
dexterrimi cultum et amorem. De instituto meo nuper Tibi communicato feci

## Folio 8v — DE-611-HS-856460:0016
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e Gandeo DE reversem ex Mlinere incolamem, eto pantinum quoque nostrum
optimum et doctissiorum virum ex sententia valenlem invenisse. Gaudet
etiam, mirifice si collega Historici negotium iutiare procedete intelligam omuum
aptime ipse andolesque summam negotio manumin autas a sarea imponet. Significatur
rimr est esse apud vis qui Philippo aagnani res scribere motiatur id nemo
TE melius udrit aut possit. Me papim vestri nstitutum irridere voluis
dum excnsavi casum, nolim suspiceris. Alienssimus sum ab eo more Nota
Huhi est ejus doctuina notum irgenium. itaque si quid inre tam difficili humani
sa
passus est ignoscendum ei, imo ut in magnslaudaadum judito. Et fac
mum vestrum ppem 2000 imperiales ut ajunt in experimenta
impendisse, Quanto plus cecdentibus principibus unum aepe tolium
hartaceum pictum autert. Ex serimentis praesertim factis. viris
cuellaciealibus deleguntur magis magusa difficultaties et compla
Miror dn. Batisium nondum mitri aliquid
distiuctius dere signiticasse, licet rogatum, quaeso solute
natur via.
et ipsi et duo papinoa me sigificata; hortare illum ut
et exhibui, praeludium circa Collegium nostrum flistoricum an vero ad gustum eru
diti seculi nescio. Interem Domini Birectores me persuasum habent et consilio sie
excitant, ad laboris continuationem.
Jam rediix ad Muras meas solvo debitum et ad Tuas respondes. Recommenctatas
et inclusas probe curavi quin deportarentur et traderentui manubus Ludolphianis.
Is altae mentis Vir ante advencum meum etiam Dn: Laullini salutaverat, prae
propere transiens. Hluc usque commoratus est apud Erphordienses. De re
ditu ipsius nihil certi constat. Ut misi videtur jam machinatur iter in Aulam
Caesaream tam in propria quam in Collegii Hlistorici causa.
Est quod misi gratuler se vidisce on: Wincrelmanni specimen Hlistoriae
Hassiacae de qua cursosa indagine hactenus eras sollicitus. Ego nondum

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rennihul me de negotii prigressu tatuve doceat neque
ob en fomunium aliusuod ammum stotim in tali. D sespondendo
judicet. Ego eum qui in ram difficili coepto prima statim
vice rem acu tangat, divino quodam ingenio pollere debere
censeo. Illua certum est ac pro demonstratoa habendum
propositum per se esse possibile modo difficultates quaedam
practicae regoveantur, quod nisi experimentis repetitis
ieri non potest. Optimum fuisset experimentu sptrasum
non Cassellis sed in remitiore aliquo loco, ne hominibus
tanta sermonum materia praeberetur
perspexi hoc opus. Semper sperabam Authoris generosos conatus et quod
res deperditas, et in profunda nocte quasi sepultar, esset productuius. Nune
vero de eo audio Tuum canciclum et maturum ludicium, profecto attonite
Errides Nugaculum haud expectationi suae satis factentem. Sicuti fert com,
munis fama ram illud aucupium solum Landgravio Casellano arripuit
supra 2000 Emperiales.
Dn: Mliegius Professor Rinthelenris, ouius industria et ingenii acies se ad ve
nerationem impellit, iam luetu vexatur moestissimo. Celeberrimus ipsius
Parens ex captivitate gallica satis dura liberatur sequebatur litteris
vocatoriis Groningam ad functionem Professionis Theologica. Vix ibidem

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tentamina inceperat ad beatar illes sedes caelertes commigravit. Cursor jam
festinat. Proxime desiclerata de Dn: Hahrio et de mea Historia Silesiae,
Videbis. Optimus Dn: Paullini, cuius candiclissimum afectum et animi propon
sionem n Te nen satis exprimere poscum, peramanter te salutat
it
Excellentissime
el fave
ale
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Observantissimo s: Sorvo
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