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# Catalogue record: 26697 — für [Wselowski]: [Promem. betr. Rußland]
# Incipit: Desiderantur (1) Catalogus librorum apud Russos editorum. (2.) Notitia
# Date: 1712-11-06
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Wselowski
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA IV (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: -vgl. Posselt: Peter der Grosse und Leibnitz, 1843, S. 235 (dt.) -vgl. Guerrier: Leibniz in seinen Beziehungen zu Rußland, 1873, Dokumententeil, S.272-273 (dt.)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=26697&katnr=37013
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1712 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1712
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866847
# Title: LBr. 809 · Scheuchzer
# Folios: Bl. 62–63 (from the shelfmark LBr 809 Bl. 62-63 (=37012)): 4 pages, canvases 131–134, page ids DE-611-HS-866847:0131 to DE-611-HS-866847:0134
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866847&page=131
# Lines: 143 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.93
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## Folio 62r — DE-611-HS-866847:0131
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A M. Scheuchzer a Zurich.
obilissime, et
C
cleberrime vi
cum TE merito tuo magnifaciam, videterisque mihi ad
munus locupletius aspirare extra patriam ubi tenmiora fortasse
sunt salaria; et Magnus Russorum Monarcha unum ex Archiatris
suis vel Medicis Aulicis amisisset; de SE subrogando cogitavi.
Noque enim dubito, quin Tu, qui tantam omnis apparatus Medici
natitiam scriptis publicis ostendisti, praxia et usum medendi his
subsidiis adjunxeris, praesertim cum ex nuperis Tuis observarim
E bellicae etiam expeditioni, Medicinam haud dubie facientem
Maguo
itaque cum nuper a Chare evocatus ad Thermas
C
ec industriam, ut par est,
arolinas accessissem, Tuam doctrinam praedicavi, interprete
interfuisse.
de
inprimis apud Monarcham, usus illustrissimo Bruce, Magno
qui vulgo auditu General. Feldzengmeicteri. Et
tormentariae praefecto. CH aliquot postea diebus
siv
ipse Archiatrorum. Comes. Nel, si mavis, primus; Aristonus
e Vharicorum
fir non in  re medica faubum, sed et
vinu re Anatomica, omnius doctrina naturali excellens
jussu summi principis mihi significavit. placuisse ipsi evocande
consilium
tua sit, cum honare ac muncro ercicatri (taib. Mec
conditioe e annues Tibi destinari
infinari tiBi cum titulo Archiatris (ninec lam Medici) annuos qibe destinari
et
lui
ditingentos rubelos ve quod eodem tredit, quadringentos
ducatos in specie sic dictos. eamque summam a tempore
I ex inde
acceptationis Tuae, currere debereii tresque menses ad iter
ead suntus itineris
qui et in sumtus et meris imputari posset
Concedi.
Iter autem institues in poneraniam, nisi
interea ar aliud significetur. ibi enim vel ipsum
Monarcham invenies, vel certe mandata ejus optime
n. Scheuchz er

## Folio 62v — DE-611-HS-866847:0132
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intelliges. nam exercitum illic in stativis habebit
Ubi autem ad Brucium, Ariskinumue pervenies, faventissimos experiere.
fabebam mecum exemplum operis dui physici
quod dono miseras; id eno Ariskino dedi, ut vel
ex hoc ungue leonem agnoscat.
vadeo autem ut post has literas acceptas statim
recta scribas ad ipsum illustrem Ariskinum
eique mentem anomi tui significes circa oblata
et
literaque qua ita inscribi poterunt:
A Monsieur
Monsieur Ariskin premier Medecin
de la personne de sa Mte
a
parienne
Gripsvalde en pomeranie
ou à la Cour du Char
Reum in TE commendando consiliumfuit, non
tantum ut TiBi gratum facerem, sed etiam ut redpublicae
literariae, et scientiarum incremento velificarer
Cum enim Magnus ille princeps mirifice delectetur
experimentis naturae et artis, putavi non tantum per
expleri posse desiderium ejus laudatissimum cogniscendi
Subia
scitu digna
naturae miracula, sed et ejus opebus innumera nora
per Mtiones ejus latissime fusas explorari posse, ande
taclenosque parum cognita
imperikussici 
nova nobis lux accendatur. Itaque non dubito quin pro indefess
Juo ne
cognoscendi studio, suggestionibus suis atque exhortationibus
memoratores

## Folio 63r — DE-611-HS-866847:0133
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2
+e
eterum
mecum veles.
ad jutarus sis hac in re consilia qualiacuria mea et ad
augendarum
2= eundem scopum scientiarum atque artium, conspiraturus.
Unum addo ex ore Ariskin, si placeas Magno Principi
ut spero non parum satisfacias, augandi salarii spem fore.
Rem gratam facies, si s indiculum Manuscriptorum ex
niqua Biberoneca S. Galli per vestros Bernatesque servatorum communicare
quod superist vale et fave. dabam in Thermis
arolinis Novenibus.
12
deditissimus
Gedefridus Guilielmus Leibnitius.
n sumtio ltineris impuitatur salarium, quod ante adventum tuum
decurret. Inque hanc rem tres menses conceduntur. Omnia coram
opinione planiora repertum iri arbitror.
Desiderantur
)Catalogus librorum apud Russos editorum
Nolitia librorum Manuscriptorum Graecorum et Russicorum in
Bibliothecis Monasteriorum, et alibi extanti apud Russos extantium
index virorum eruditorum, tam Russorum quam extranenum,
qui nunc a Magni Czares adhibentur, aut in ejus ditionibus versanturagunt
sevitio
4) Notitia de homine ex japonia vel, China in litus siberiae tempestate
singulatim
ejecto, de quo Dn. Vinnius notitiam habet. Et speciatim quaeritur quo in
plura novent 1
specialiqe
5Notitia (de hominibus Magno Czari subjectis, qui continuato versus septen
loco fuerit deprehensus.
decrati.
trionem ilinere in regiones calidiores penetrasse dicuntur
Specimina linguarum in imperio Magni Czaris et vicinis regionibus
Haec specimina possent consistere in eratione Dominica,
Nolitia eteti
ymbolo. Apostolico, et decalogo translatis in unam quamque linguam, et
usotatarum.
Scriptis verbis quidemlinquae, haracteribus autem pussicis. Subjecta ubique
itione interpretatione lineari Russica, ita ut ve voci respondeat;
iter
opus praeterea foret brevi Dictionariolo in una quaque linqua. Ita simul
cujusge
populis notitia verae fidei, nobis notitia linguae populi aperiretur
2
ex lnqua patet)

## Folio 63v — DE-611-HS-866847:0134
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 Desiderarem praeterea dictionarium et vocabularia tam
7
itar
Slavonica literabia, quam Russica, si quae haberi possunt
8) item Grammaticat Slavonigum
(9) Libits antiquo Historict gentis Russica
10) Speciatim librum qui dicitur +aY
11
oV
Officium divinum Russicum, cum versione vel Graca, vel alia
12) Biblia Russica.
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1
Catechismum Russicum.
) preces sussicas
M. Wdeseloroski biy datngeen, des rave sem bruder
nda trant Curatium