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# Catalogue record: 19586 — Leibniz an Johann Andreas Schmidt
# Incipit: In mentem venit rogare an noris juvenem cujus genius feratur ad labore
# Date: 1699-03-20 (99-03-10)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Schmidt, J.A.
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,16 N. 388
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=19586&katnr=49271
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-867148
# Title: LBr. 818 · Schmidt, J.A.
# Folios: Bl. 127 (from the shelfmark LBr 818 Bl. 127): 2 pages, canvases 253–254, page ids DE-611-HS-867148:0253 to DE-611-HS-867148:0254
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## Folio 127r — DE-611-HS-867148:0253
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dd an od. Scamidium
Helmestadiensam
neolgum
In mentem venit rogare an noris
juvenem cujus genius feratur ad labores quale
possulat sdlutio literarum occultis notis sepi–
itarum quam vulgue deciptrationem
vocant. Opus est in eam rem duober, si
sse sedentam .
patientia laboris et naturali saegalitale.
Talem ego alicubi in anta commendare vellem
ut hiic operi destinetur, ortisque principus altioribus
imbuatur. Batem autem qui ad calculos
sit aptus, etiam istis Cryptolytricis parem fore
paesertim si in Algebra vel possit aliquid vel
sliquando se praestare posse sp sperare
nos iabeat. Nam Algebra est calculi
aper. Rogo ergo ut hac de re cogrtes
sed ipsius scopi, nempe Cryptolyfici
apuo alios imentionem facere, nondum
opus erit. spero Abbatiae negotium
aut confectum esse, aut certe mox conficiendum
post tam ex pressa toties (promissa.
Nanverae 10 Martii 1699

## Folio 127v — DE-611-HS-867148:0254
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