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# Catalogue record: 17356 — Mentet Kettwig an Leibniz
# Incipit: Litterae tuae XXVI. Martii ad me exaratae, non misi ante hoc triduum m
# Date: 1696-06-15 (96-06-05)
# Sender: Kettwig — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,3 N. 062
# Other printings: -Jahrb.d.Ges.f.bildende Kunst u.vaterländ.Altertümer zu Emden 14(1902)1/2, S.496-497; -Feller, Monumenta, S.380 (teilw.); -Ludovici 1 S.343-344 Anm. (Feller); -Dutens, Opera 5 S.568 (Feller); -Klopp, Werke, 4, 1865, Einl. S. 16 (teilw.); -cf. Grua: Textes, 1948, S.656
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-854980
# Title: LBr. 467 · Kettwig
# Folios: Bl. 8–9 (from the shelfmark LBr 467 Bl. 8-9): 4 pages, canvases 15–18, page ids DE-611-HS-854980:0015 to DE-611-HS-854980:0018
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# Lines: 105 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 8r — DE-611-HS-854980:0015
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iro Illustri
clo suidiclmo ccionitio
Mentchus Metbroigius S.d. Y.
illerae e us Marti ad me exaratie
non nisi ante hoc triduum mihi sunt
reddita; Etenim cum parentem meum Lerae
in trisiis Oricatalibas degentem gavus abhine
diebus salutarem, forte fortuna abidem eus
resperi. cum eodem absente famulo essent
traditae, ab eoque in musoo urentis resecta
nec illi primo obhitu vise. Cnepa id factum
habellard Auricani qui littenus ad putrem endre
nominis perferendas dedit cum uterque nostrum
suris utrium doctor sit renuntiatus, opturem itaque
Si quidsodt ad me curetur, ut inssoriptio liHerar
rum locum domicilii mei. Emdam scilicet
sene se ferret. Cotera nihil un quam mehi
gratius obrenturum tactor, quam ut anta doretur
stadia mea excolendi cum sarolinum MMud
us vera neminem magis quand studiosam
suventritem, cui cure est vitum haud quaquar
ilentio trantigere, decere putem.
Offers
ad id dik, HLusRIs duo media, tum, ut
srobe eu, quae à re de Nobbianis et puris natum
e

## Folio 8v — DE-611-HS-854980:0016
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ralis srincisius, in libro de jure Suprematus
et Prefatisone coilicis diplonatici sunt dicta
expenderem, legeremq.
cum uti me ad
lectionem eorun, qua vr erudilistimus din–
centius Dlaccius in accestionibus nuper edi–
tis, de jure nature, scientiaque nirali dise
uit, accingerem, eaquey quae in rem vide
rentur, notarem.
fateor 
R I Llestii
sic quidem commodistume ad veritatemiri
nec esse viam magis commodum, et emenda
veritati parem, quam quidem amicum ejus.
modi exleationem, ast dubito, num tantum
onuo subire, humeri mei ferant. Non tamen
provinciam detrecto, siquidem Mihi juveni
Si quae minus recte decero, Vos venitam datu
ros, nec cupiditatem meam in lilleris spoe
claraque hac spientia proficiendi. Malam in
scartem interpeetaturos confidam, mo certus sim
Haqua, cumt animus mitri sit. propediem Bre–
mau petendi, dabo operam, ust piri Claristimi
dinc. Maceri accestiones ibidem comparem.
den smevia attenta lectione, Liquae habeam, no
tabo, eademque occusione tectatum faciam rua
smesorum in
libro de Jure suspre matus mihi
lecta, mio relectu esse. Pressationem (od

## Folio 9r — DE-611-HS-854980:0017
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cis L. G. Diplomatici aliquando ussd Ansilis.
simum, jam vero summo eruditorum cordolio
et malino littersarum disspendio denatum
feltmannum legi sed omma exequi per olium
tum non licebat manime, quod Vide saucellan
Zius Amps. Avemannus libitum s. Feltmanno
enim ad treve utendum concesterat. (eodem
momento repeteret, nec mihi heic uidae
resperice clatum fuit; nun odium, quo D. Vicc-
anscellarius contra me immerentem flagrat
nullo modo mini ad Tunilem adistum prabet
faceo, ut librorum suorum msspectionem daret,
ette de me actum foret, si mitro Mincipali
qratia niti, fors injungeret, optarem tanien
Eidem re conciliarier, si qua ces efet, id tanien
per te impetraturum me sperrocum DE silum
Timum apud Eundem poste, sciam. Caustus con
cepti odii varias D. Viseesancellarius refert. sed
chanim sosistima videtur liber a ms de Mmbita
seu ad c. suliam Ambitus consoriptus. Jam
Mmridem ad Saurmannum Aremam literus
dedi, ut meis sumtibus ad TE libemplam
curaret, hoc an factum ignoro si su
illud exscterem. cum scublica DE ejusmodi
scripta regere prohibeast, ut ab hostoriis et po-

## Folio 9v — DE-611-HS-854980:0018
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liticis non alieno librum legendum commileres
an talia in eo reseriret, quae quis in se didta
putare posset.
Certe Asol. Adre meusis
fenahis, cum proscciptionem libri D. Areman-
nus urgeret, ommissarios dedit, qui viderent
numne liber quid proscriptione degnum, contine-
ret. Cui provia relatione dechetani de
non distrakelado inhibitionem castarunt, scriplumus
non inutile judicarunt. Suro hoc amplius
liquido jurare, et per omnia sacra affirmare
seossum. me neminem scrosentium mfordaci vero
rodere roeuisse. Nec caete roqum ad me
pertinet
si quis aliena malesacta, sibi ab
si militudinem morum, objesita patet
U, si innocentem me quoqe absolvens, hoc
bonum factum tutum contrus quosvis srosi
diums mihi erit. Vale dik I-
Cussais, et quantoeins ea, ad qa
me duxorint, ain ma, tum eaecn
Scripta exsictato. Dabam.Mbdae
V.
Jun.
A. uet. _. DC. XCVI