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# Catalogue record: 32336 — Otto Sperling an Leibniz
# Incipit: Quas Berolino ad me dederas a. d. XXVII. Januar. ante paucos dies trad
# Date: 1703-03-03
# Sender: Sperling — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,22 N. 159
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=32336&katnr=16571
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# Title: LBr. 884 · Sperling
# Folios: Bl. 8–11 (from the shelfmark LBr 884 Bl. 8-11): 8 pages, canvases 17–24, page ids DE-611-HS-866792:0017 to DE-611-HS-866792:0024
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# Lines: 197 recognised on 7 of 8 pages, mean confidence 0.82
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## Folio 8r — DE-611-HS-866792:0017
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exhusttis et Cacellentissime sir.
Duas Berolino ad me dederas a. d. XXVII. Sanuar.
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ante paucos dies traditae fuerunt. Grariscrmae fue
a
vroit non uno nomine; et quidem lopraecipue
e
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quod tantostudio incumtas rei literariae juvanda.
Ce
sis
Deus Se, hrAncplissime, notis sospitem diuser
vel: his imbrimis temporibus, quando literae bo-
es
nae contemtui sunt, et obsolelcient fere, ut mul
+
tis nihil magis barbarum sit, quam Literatum
esse.
et
judicio legu debere, sunt enim inter illa non
minus Gabulosa, quansunt Herodoti, Satris
Q
Testoriarom, illadq, commune habent cum ple-
risque priscis, qui fabulas veris intermiscuenat
toto horreo, quumnon aliter tune s
s
2
Aisto
ra, nec aliter scribi posset, postquam fabulis
aa
omnes relationes interbolatas accibiebant.
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mae histor
infucata scriptae, prout
sor

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taeus inserie sua Regum Dania doctissime trovi-
dit, et quibus credipossit, quibus vero secus, comnon
S
ravit. Nec sanonem exeuso Grammaticin, quo-
niam ipse se excusat, variisque oberis siilocis a-
ferte profitetur se illis non credere quae scribit
l
referenda tamen esse, quod sie antiquitas retu
lerit.
Pentsis seussiaticis, qui cum Ahino Septentrio-
nalia ocentarint Lxx ante Christum annis, ita
Historiciillorum, ut fasnon
sit deillis amblius dubitare.
De Punograthia illonemr obtime mones ante sar
linum cevin vircaliquid nea constare: inis
mea fide, si uti illâ non grave sibi foret, sir
Illustris, haudante Christianam religionem
L
solide fiendatam ullam fuisse tuto plare
contendo; qualis scilicet nunc est in tot Inscri-
etionibus, quae pertotim septentrionem, h. C. in
Dania Norreqia et Suecia (encipiuntur enins
Landia, et aeroenses insula, ubo nullae) tanto
numeroreteruntur. Atque

## Folio 9r — DE-611-HS-866792:0019
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blebeja sint, nec ab ullo Rege, vel Nobilibus magnati
L
bus invenio positas. Certum tamen est Runicas il-
sasliteras, aut notas, aut siglas baganes horum loco
q
1
rum dudum inusu fuisse, et cum Normannis etiam
in Hormandiam francicam translatas, prous
L
a
monuit Rabanus Maurus apud Gordastum in Al
remannicis. At non propter scriptionem apudpaga
e
nos inusu fuerunt, quim illi nihil scribereqe
e
sed ad magiam suam exercendam, notas has in
cantando, et diabolieis praec
e
si
ut putabant, reddendo, talibus funis usi sunt
unam vel alteram tignis, gladiis, hastis inscul-
pendo, broamoribus et odiis encitandis, seque pontra
hostes muniendis. Quae quoniam cum ristiana
religione introductâ abrogan debuerent et eustir
pari, vulgus autem eribi sibi aegre pateretur
hinc plebis causa coactisunt unas illas ipsis re
Linquere, sed in Alphabetin redactas, ut illis sero
terent quantum vellent, et cum opus esse du
cerenti hasque Runas consecratas vocabant, ut du

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stinquerentur
seriptio quaedam continua vel Alphabetica paga
nis est peracta, sed notatio quaedam sola, encom
seja
binationibus surs et perplexitatibus magicis ar-
tibus inserviens.
Quae deinde de Scandinaviae incolis finno Lapponibus
eu
subjungis, ea ex nullo antiquo scriptore frobariun-
quam poterunt. Finni enem nunquam olimscandina
viam habitarunt, multo minus Laptones, qui er fin
se
ex
diserte docuit. Finni autem habitarunt in aliotra
eta a Scandinavia multis maribus discreto, ubi num
est Finlandia, Sinus Botnieus et sinus finnicus,
quam etiam insulam veteres existimarunt et Ni-
s
e
nio dicitur Lninqua, ubi alii tenningiam leqivo-
ticit. Haec ex antiqurs Scriptoribus nobis de illis ter
ris constant. Jam vero quod Germanos inscandi-
naviama meridionali Balthici maris liltore ve-
nientes, in scandinaviam colonias deduxisse, et se
s
des ibifinisse, pulsis finno Lapponibus, ad interiora
s
ultercus asseris, neque illud probari poterit. Ne
 Ten
e
friona

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lium quam externorum, quae Pandalos, Danos, Lou
gobardos Herulos, Augros, Burgundos Gothos, en se
ptentrione littora Germania insedisse ante Christa
natum, et postothini adventum, cu jus dominio se
subjcere nolebant, ideoqemigrationes illas susce
fisse certum est. Neque tapien una migratione haec
credas effecta, sed pluribus, alris serius, aliis sta
fimmigrantibus. Haec antiquitati, ejusque Scriptorib.
ioruu figmienta
cerebrina sunt, quibus fides nulla debetur
Adanum Bremensem cum notis terpetuis meis
ante biennium Anistelodamum misi, ut ibi, prout
bromiserant ederetur duobus tomis in 4lo. Librie
itum hic mecum retinur, ut viderem brius, quomodo
promisis satisfacerent. Sed nondum matum admo
ba
alias excusatiunculas afferentes. Et quoniam on
Germania pronitius illud opus lucem visurum pre
miserunt docti iris revocavijam saebius quae mi
peram: sed nec illud hactenus impetrare potui:
adeo mebudos faciunt egregie

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Suadesetiam, ut alia mea praelo submittam: Luam
vellemego; multa namque parata habeo. Sed hic
e
C
loci, quod sibi dictum sit, oleum et operam perdi-
mus: nullum enim tyfograbhum, nullim Maece
natem reperimus, quai talia curet. Egosumtibus
illis imparsum. Slatrisigitur et fineis scribta
sint: ea jam aetas mihiest, illud senuum et frigu
utnoncurem.
Praesidem se Societati Antiquariae Berolinensi
c
gc animo gratulor: nul-
tum de Illustriorem et diligentibra
orem fraficere poterant si qua re Societaten
illam solustrem juvare potero; me paratissi-
es
mum invenies. Lequsth, nusi fallor quaedenum
onta
motetradrachme argentet Constantini M. ra
ribimo, et forte unieo in thesauris nummarus
quos tactenus videre mihi licuit, disserim
Hovis literariis Lubecensibus, quemtestraeso
cietati offero, non solum, sed et aliam meam
supellectilem cunosiorem, quam magnis sum
tibus collegi mitineribus meis. qum zor

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Dcopor et a harente etiam meo b. m heredita
riam possideo Numismata, Naturalia, Artisi
c. C
cialia, Conchylia, omnis generis rariora, quae
ad museum curiosun pertinere tosiunt, illic
Regis Prussiae musea jamtalibus repleta, ux
e
goctuas Athenas multam, offero illa tamenae-
quo pretio; quum non oubitem in illis reperire
quaedam, quae tanti Regis musea adhuc oma
se possint, et quoniam ego heredehis digno cares
et jam septicagenarius sego sarcinas colligo ex
adverto.
taleas diutissime, meque commendatum sibi esse
sinas, qui nunquam non ero
f
ccerleniissimeer
Sabamslafniae
a. d. III. Martie.
Amn. C1322CC111.
An. Waltherus noster
convalescit, et si quas
adme datis, ille reddet optime
Llustris sect nonunis
erpetuus
cultor
inus

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