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# Catalogue record: 38979 — Leibniz an Pierre Daniel Huet
# Incipit: Intellexi magno gaudio meo insigne opus et victurum de veritate Religi
# Date: 1678-10-28 (78-10-18)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Huet
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II,1 N. 185a
# Other printings: -E1: Winckler, Anecdota 1 (1757), S.488-493. -E2: Uhl, Sylloge nova epistolarum 1, 1760, S.646-649. -E3: Gerhardt, Phil. Schr. 3 (1887), S.12-13. -E4: LAA II,1 (1926) N.199. -Dutens, Opera 5 S.457-458 (nach E2). Übers.: -Hess, G.: Leibniz korrespondiert mit Paris, Hamburg 1940, S.69-70 (tlw.); Neudr. S.71-72 (tlw.).
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=38979&katnr=32556
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-974422
# Title: LBr. 428 · Huet
# Folios: Bl. 13–16 (from the shelfmark LBr 428 Bl. 13-16): 8 pages, canvases 25–32, page ids DE-611-HS-974422:0025 to DE-611-HS-974422:0032
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-974422&page=25
# Lines: 104 recognised on 8 of 8 pages, mean confidence 0.91
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## Folio 13r — DE-611-HS-974422:0025
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estre
Danrels
HUeo
gotsfredus Guilielmus Leib
nitius
Intellexi magno gauetre med in
signe opus et victurum de veritate
religiones nostra tandem prochrisse
in lucem. Neque vero digmius arqu
mentum reperire poteras, cur destina
retur maximus ille eruditionrs
apparatus quem tantis vigiliis
collegisti. Quid erum demes rehesu

## Folio 13v — DE-611-HS-974422:0026
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ne praertantius est et quud morta,
les animos afficit magis. Dulciosi
mum profecto est et mirifice solatur
incommoda vitae immortalitatem asseri.
nobis, non quamlibet, sed qualem optare
possimus, id est qualem docuit hristus
Luem ostenclere promissum tot oraculis
fuisse Messuam generis humami restauratorem
maxima conclusionum est, post duas
illas casitales de Deo et Mente. Certe
non video quam possimus utilitatem
expectare majorem ab historia et eru
ditione. Amplius dico, mihi studium
antiquitatis omne hunc propemocum
Unicum habete videtur usum, ut vetera felicitatis
atque ut ita dicam nobilitatis nostrae quam ad Christi
regenarati referre debemus, documenta a du
bitationibus et corruptelis vidicemus

## Folio 14r — DE-611-HS-974422:0027
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Ostenclendum enim est primum libros sa
cros quos habemus genuinos esse, et ad pos
pervenisse in corruptos quoud summam rerum
Quod nemo ratis potest nisi Criticae artis myste
ria intellexerit et manuscripeorum fidem ex
plorare possit, et linquarum proprietates et
genium illorum ecculorum et ceriem temporum
norit. Deinde ostendendum est uutorem tantarum
rerum ad quem libri saeri referuntur, coelo missit
fuisse; id vero oracuta testantur quae multis
post secrclis nasciturum cerinere, et mira facta
eorum quos sua Christus autoritate armavit,
et saaltitai doctrina incomparabilis, et martyrim
constantia et cenique triumphus cruus. Haec vero
omnia ita ut narrantur gesta suisse demonstrari
non potest nisi tota histora universali sacra
Historiae autem universalis demonstratib
et profana accuratissime constituta; colleetis 
ud
et manuscriptio et numismatis et inscrijetionibus
aliisque cimeliis eruditorum. His enim sit Historiae

## Folio 14v — DE-611-HS-974422:0028
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fides. Itaq Caepe mecum cogitans optam
esse qui nobis inventarium ut ita dicam ex
hibeat pretiosi hujus thesauri omnium quae
hocliequ supersunt reliquiarum antiquitatie, quoad
ejus fieri potest. Gale quiddam circa in
scriptiones expectamus a summo intiis stu
eliis viro Marquado Gudic nec numismatis
deerunt Chechiel Spanhemius aliiqus ex
cellentes viri maxime autem Carcarius
regiarum
reoter a in hoc egsenere opum castes
meritissimus. Sed Historiam Manuscripto
rum hactenus desidero, qua enumerentur me
liores qui nunc quoque extant in Curopa edices
illi imprimis ex quibus autores expressi sunt
aut rari)
et qui sant untci. Led haec obiter. interea
suffecerit omnem eruditionis apparatum
ad siotoriam Sacram comprobardam velut
seopiem potissimum dirigi debere. Luod cum
a te felicissime factum esse non dubitem, quan

## Folio 15r — DE-611-HS-974422:0029
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quam non nisi partem operis mediti Deolini
monotrante viderim; gratulandum melion
eruditioni arbitror, qua nerum usum suum
te duce invenit, gratulandum Tibi qui
famam et utilitatem conjumxisti. Ipsum
opus non ego tantum aride clesidero (:qu’an
quam jam in itinere ad nos esse arbitrer:) sed
et expectat serenissimus Johannes
er
C
dericus Prunsvicensiuni et Lune burgen
ium Dux princeps supra quam
credi possit et intelligens, et rerum omnium
maximeq eruditionis sacra curiosus cui
non ignotum est nomen suum, et quime
institutum tuum enarratem summa cum
noluptate audirit. Vale illustris Vir, et
cultori nominis tui ac virtutum tuarum
lave

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NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTH

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NLEIBNI
ACHSISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHE

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L2.  L3   24    L5+6
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