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# Catalogue record: 12111 — Johann Heinrich Pape an Leibniz
# Incipit: Postquam diplomatum juris gentium
# Date: 1694-08-05 (94-07-26)
# Sender: Pape — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,2 N. 279
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=12111&katnr=37891
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-861305
# Title: LBr. 711 · Pape
# Folios: Bl. 13–14 (from the shelfmark LBr 711 Bl. 13-14): 4 pages, canvases 25–28, page ids DE-611-HS-861305:0025 to DE-611-HS-861305:0028
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-861305&page=25
# Lines: 87 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 13r — DE-611-HS-861305:0025
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ape
Mentissime,
atione
quam plurimum devenerande
ostquam diplomatum juris centium ab Excellentia
Tua editus tomus primus ad me pertatus est, dicere
vix possum, quam avide quantaque delectatione cum
totam in librum apprime curiosum praefationem,
Ce
tum illam praecipue partem leverim, quae jus
naturae centiumque altinoit, illud quidem ex desi-
nitione quarundam notionum aerivando, tresque
ei gradus, sicut jam olim in Methodo juris
factum fuerat, assionando, quorum posterioribus
duobus non parum lucis nunc demum accessisse
l
apparet, de gentium vero placitis tacitoque populois

## Folio 13v — DE-611-HS-861305:0026
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consensu recextis moribus per exeoppla ex ipsis diplomatibus
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petita ostendendo, quid circa personas, res actusque juri na-
turali suxeraddiderint. Sed quemadmodum plura hujus
aroumenti in libro aut libri praesatione repertum iri,
vel ipso titulo duce avourabar sperabamque; artequam
C
ab Cxcellentia Tua in literis ad me datis novis-
simis de eo specialius amonerer; ita quod te
stadio historico, in quo nunc versaris, aliquando
decurso resumturum esse ais ordinandi juris cogi-
tationes, de eo universae surisprudentiae gratulor, precoru
Deum, ut eorexio isti consilio Tuo otium spatiumque
induloeat clementissime, praesertim cum vix con-
e
jiciam alium quenquam huic tam difficili neootio
parem esse. Ln. Peldenus, quem nonnulli prae
caeteris idoneum putant juris naturalis scientiae
constituendae, et misi visus, est strictum jus plane
et

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sexonere vel cum aequitate confundere; (quorum tamen dis-
crimen ab Excellentia Tua elecanter propositum, ad multas Do-
G
ctorum dissensiones inter se conciliandas aptum est) negue
sat accuratis terminorum definitionibus inniti, sine quus
accuratam methodum et solidam demonstrationem dari
non posse persuasissimum habeo. Cum vero accuratas de-
finitiones exstruere res maoni momenti nec minoris operae
sit, ab eo qui philosolsia accuratiori non innutritus, est, nulla-
tenus exivendae, parum equidem miror, neminem hactenss
ACtorum, quorum pars maxima communem sectatur Pilo
sopiam, multi etiam plerasque res morales definiri inutite
putant et tantum non Eident, a le inventam praescriptama
juris methodum facto ipso exequi conatum esse. Misi
sane valde arriserunt Tua in Codicis prasatione positae
definitiones justitiae, amoris, saxientiae, nisitque magis
in votis, est, quaon talium definitionum, quiexe quae non solum
il
rerum coonitionem promovere, sed, nisi fallor, ad stylum
e
quoque contrahendum et ab ineptis tautologiis liberandum con-
ducere possunt, farraeinem quandam videre, quam quidem
dare, in proclivi esse existimo suae Excellentiae.

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lamet si enim hebetis invenii mei probe conscius non id mili
sumo, aliquid in me facultatis esse vel fore etiam ad ornanda juris
studia, vix tamen ulli concedo in iis amandis, nec crubescam
unquam  addiscere etiam ea quae primos academicae vitae
mea annos magis decuissent. (ui rei vel illud aroumento sit, quod
nunc demum decretum misi atque propositum est, sub autumnum,
volente Deo, quamprimum res mea in aliqualem ordinem redigen
dae id permittent, relicta urbe patria mea Hanoveram ve-
nire et aliquandiu ibidem commorari, primo quidem ut co-
minus Te venerari, et si quid forte earum doctrinarum quas
ad meum palatum esse nosti, pro summa Tua humanitate et
sinoulari in me benevolentia, cujus non unae literae lua ma
enam misi fidem fecerunt, mecum communicare dionaberis,
commadius eodem frui misi liceat, deinde etiam ut beneficio
Tua commendationis, quam sicuti, plurimum in Electorali
non modo sed aliis quoque aulis etiam ultra merita mea posse
ac valere scio, sic maximoxere, peto speroque, tolerabili cui-
dam functioni (quam hoc loco exspectare longum fuerit
forte Secretariatus aut simili admovear. Ita icitur, ut
dixi, faciam, si modo prius intellexero, non displicere Tuae
xcellentia hoc meum consilium, et simul, quod modis omnibe
2000 atque contendo, de gratia et pathocinio tuo securum me.
esse jusseris. Deus d. M. Excellentiam Tuam publico, inprimis
rei literariae bono vigentem florentemque servet. Vabam Luneburgi
d. 26. Julii anno 1694. Eoccellentiae T.
Cultor humillimus
Josannes Heuries sasp