# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Piece: https://leibnizlegible.com/api/records/20800/text
# Catalogue record: 20800 — Leibniz an Johann Andreas Schmidt: (Ex literis meis ad Dn. Abbatem Schmidium)
# Incipit: Magnopere domino M. Wagnero consultum velim speroqve etiam aliqvid fru
# Date: 1699-12-25 (99-12-15)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Schmidt, J.A.
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,17 N. 420
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=20800&katnr=49299
# AA I,17: the volume in the Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-bd-i-17
# In the Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,17, p. 309 (PDF, Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs, CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/fileadmin/Leibniz/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/I17B.pdf#page=309
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-867148
# Title: LBr. 818 · Schmidt, J.A.
# Folios: Bl. 166 (from the shelfmark LBr 818 Bl. 166): 2 pages, canvases 331–332, page ids DE-611-HS-867148:0331 to DE-611-HS-867148:0332
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-867148&page=331
# Lines: 41 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.95
# 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.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line, page by page: a "## Folio <label> — <page id>" line ("## Canvas <n>" where no folio label is recorded), "# " lines naming its source image and model, then its recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

## Folio 166r — DE-611-HS-867148:0331
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-867148/jpgs/default/00000331.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 39 lines, status machine
Ex literis meis ad du. Abbatem schmidium
dectali
1699 C
Magnopere domino M. Wdagnero consultum velim
speroque etiam aliquid fractuosi pro eo effici posse, sed vereor ut illud
omne obtinere liceat, quod ille sibi promittit. Nam domino vice cancellario
nostro visus est in arte quidem et praxibus usualibus satis, in scientia
e
autem et causis cognoscendis nondum satis profecisse. Et jam literas ab eo
accepi, quibus interroganti mihi respondet, non posse se probare, ut professio
nem vacuam Wagnemsaccipiat postulatque a ime ut eum moneam
ne hoc affectet, et apud quelfebytanos etiam agam (: siquidem
eorum sit turnus;de quo sibi nondum satis constare arti) ut de viro
cogitetur, qui par muneri censeri possit. Haec res me satis perplexum
habet. M. Wdagnerum enim iiventuti docenda in iis quae vulgo
expeti solent, satis astum judico nec male consultum fore
Academiae, in iis quae vulgo expeti solent, satis aptum judico, nec
male consultum fore Academiaerege si docendi aliqua illi pro-
dingia credatur. Neque alibi quis quam mihi notus est, qualis
desideratur, cujus vocationem suadere aut sperare possim.
nterea fateor nondum ita penetrasse Ellum ad interiora
ut reddere rationes et argumentum alicujus momensi accurate
elaborare possit sed pes est quae desunt, aliquando consecum
turum. Si mea monita inde a biennio audivisset, nunc non esset
ipsi haec oblata difficultas. Sed ille suam sententiam secutus alia
omnia egit. Interea destitui euue neque aequam neque bonum censeo–
taque de temperamento cogitavi et tentabo efficere, ut (quoniam Epud
nos interiora Mathemata a superioribus non distinguuntur) saltem
conferatur illi Extraordinaria in Facultate phitosophica professio,
cum reculiari ad res mathematicas docendi facultate, et
Salario aliquo, quo Mathemabica doctums ob instrumentorum
apraratum calere non potest. Scripsi hunc in sensum du vicelam
cellario. sed nondum obtinui esponsum spero famen saltem
minus adversum fore. Quod si du. M. Wdaguerus ad ipsam ordina
riam professionem omnino contenderet, atque etam hic (quod vereor
ut fiat) nominationem obtineret, metuendum esse ne autam Hano
velanam, et quod hinc sequitur ellensem )s adversas experturas et
collisioni occasionem sit daturus, quae non posset non cedere in ipsius damnus
taqu malim eat per gradus sat impedrabilioribus sit contentis

## Folio 166v — DE-611-HS-867148:0332
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/DE-611-HS-867148/jpgs/default/00000332.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 2 lines, status machine
SÄCHSISCHE LANDESBIBLIC
Signatr: LBr 818, [332]- 1661 C)