# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Piece: https://leibnizlegible.com/api/records/38762/text # Catalogue record: 38762 — Simon Foucher an Leibniz # Incipit: Il y a longtems que j'ay dessein de vous écrire pour vous prier de me # Date: 1678-08-12 # Sender: Foucher — Addressee: Leibniz # Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,1 N. 183 # Other printings: -E1: Gerhardt, Phil. Schr. 1 (1875), S.374-375. -E2: LAA II,1 (1926) N.183. -G. W. Leibniz: Obras filosóficas y científicas 15 (Correspondencia II), Hrsg. J. A. Nicolás/R. Rovira, Granada 2021, S. 370f. (span. Übers.) # Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=38762&katnr=31512 # AA II,1: its series at Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster (online after accepting its terms): https://www.uni-muenster.de/Leibniz/seite5.html # Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-971279 # Title: LBr. 278 · Foucher # Folios: Bl. 2–3 (from the shelfmark LBr 278 Bl. 2-3): 4 pages, canvases 3–6, page ids DE-611-HS-971279:0003 to DE-611-HS-971279:0006 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-971279&page=3 # Lines: 241 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.59 # 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