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# Catalogue record: 15404 — Leibniz an Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont: Extrait de ma lettre à Monsieur d'Helmont
# Incipit: Vous voyés Monsieur parce qve je viens de vous rapporter de la lettre
# Date: 1696-12-14 (96-12-04)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Helmont
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,3 N. 087
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=15404&katnr=K+3904
# AA II,3: its series at Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster (online after accepting its terms): https://www.uni-muenster.de/Leibniz/seite5.html
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-508944
# Title: LBr. 389 · Helmont
# Folios: Bl. 72 (from the shelfmark LBr 389 Bl. 72.75 (= K_3902)): 2 pages, canvases 141–142, page ids DE-611-HS-508944:0141 to DE-611-HS-508944:0142
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-508944&page=141
# Lines: 32 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.83
# Catalogue: Leibniz-Katalog / Arbeitskatalog der Leibniz-Edition (https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/), ed. Arbeitsstelle Potsdam I der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY 4.0.
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
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## Folio 72r — DE-611-HS-508944:0141
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 75v); this page is its right half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-508944/jpgs/default/00000141.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 17 lines, status machine
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## Folio 72v — DE-611-HS-508944:0142
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 75r); this page is its left half.
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-508944/jpgs/default/00000142.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 15 lines, status machine
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