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# Catalogue record: 43140 — Thomas Smith an Leibniz
# Incipit: Doleo, nec leviuscule quidem, et tuam, vir praestantissime, et meam al
# Date: 1705-09-23 (05-09-12)
# Sender: Smith, Th. — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,25 N. 097
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=43140&katnr=17606
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866691
# Title: LBr. 872 · Smith, Th.
# Folios: Bl. 85–87 (from the shelfmark LBr 872 Bl. 85-87): 6 pages, canvases 169–174, page ids DE-611-HS-866691:0169 to DE-611-HS-866691:0174
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866691&page=169
# Lines: 120 recognised on 6 of 6 pages, mean confidence 0.97
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## Folio 85r — DE-611-HS-866691:0169
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Nestmonasterii d. 12. Sept. 1705.
Doleo, nec leuiuseule quidem, et tuam, vir praestantissime
etmeam aliorumque nostratium, antiquitatis et Historiae Britan–
nicae studiosorum, infelicem vicem, quibus nullus adhuc per
mittitur ad bibliothecam Cottonianam aditus litibus inter
Curatores et haredem nobilissimi benefactoris, iuvenem
tetricum et duri ingenii, qui nullis argumentis aut suase–
bus expugnabilis illum ex aedibus suus ad locum vicinum
longe publicis osibus commodiorem, transferri nolit, non-
dum finitis, nec facile, nisi ex nouae legis Parlamentaria
sanctione finiendis. auapropter consultius duco
idemque mecum sentit D. Rymerus, ut exemplar tuum
Geruasci Filburiensis Cantabrigiam, cum condice MS. in
archiuis bibliothecae Collegii Sancti Benedicti conferendum
nulla mora interposita, transmittatur. Nos hac ex parte
operam et industriam nostram desiderandam esse et defu-
turam neutiquam patiemur. Confestim iam cum D. Pact
lero, quem cras adibo serro agam: eo quidem attentiori
et alacriori animo, ut Geruasius cum ceteris scripto
sibus, qui rerum Brunsuicensium historiam contexue-
runt, laudatissima tua industria in publicam lucem prope
diem

## Folio 85v — DE-611-HS-866691:0170
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aiem eruendis simul quoque prodeat. Ipse vero, cum iam per in-
gravescentem atatem et incommoda vitae, quae studiis pet mul–
tos annos intercesserunt, quippiam grande, et hactenus inlitum
novumque moliri vix possim, qual velim, et quantum amicio
benigne id exprobrantibus debeam, contentus rebus medi-
ocribus, et pro modulo meo saltem inter consenescendum
paulo sapere enitens, aggralior id, quod possim. Ideo
neturpi socordia, dum valetudo sinit, prorsus contabestere
viderer, quorundam illustrium dodissimorum que virorum
vitas, rudi licet stilo, describere ducum suscepi, tum ut illorum
memoria et fama, si quid mea commeniatio valet, ad posteros
derivarentur, tum ut, cum de bonis literis bene mereri
ex proprio ingenio neutiquam possim, illorum exemplis pra
positis, posthamisque lucubrationibus editis, affectum neum
erga easdem aliquatenus testarer. Nescio autem, quo malo
fato acciderit, quod D. D. Huntingtoni et Bernarii vitas
ante annum non accepisses: et plane iam sordebit munus.
culum nimis seco oblatum. Sed hanc sive culpam, sive
errorem, pout tu aut comiter aut rigide censebis, diligen-
tioribus magisque tempestiuis officiis in futurum redi-
mendum curabo. Vellem equidem Vsserii Archiepiscopi Armacha-
ni, Henrici Briggii et Loannis Bambridgii, Mathemati carum
scientiarum ex fundatione D. Henrici Savilii in Acadlemia
OXO-

## Folio 86r — DE-611-HS-866691:0171
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Oxoniensi Professorum, aliorumque praeclarissimorum virorum
vitas in dias luminis aueas produxisse. Sed bibliopolarum
a
KIKSoloXia ex vendibilioribus mercimonis certius lucrum captan.
tium, plane intercessit, quae auspicatioribus temporibus, pacato
et libero mari, commercio reclinteguato, firma denique per or-
bem Luropaum pace restituta, resericabantur post mortem
meam publicandae.
D. Rymeri tertium volumen iam sub prelo sudat, intra
annum decurrentem, ni fidem datam violent typographi
exiturum: post breui sequetur aliud hoctitulo insignien.
dum: dupplementum Historico- Critico-Curiosum: in quo
admiranda ingenii et solertiae vires fusius explicabit 
chiuorum nostrorum diligentissimus ille rimator.
Fyrrellius aliud quoque Historiae Anglicanae volumen
parat, qui omnibus bonis candidisque, exceptis Demon
craticis, Regiaeque dignitatis oscribus, intemperanter et
maligno prorsus animo in virum optimum et doctissimum
D. Bradaum inuehi visus est, ipse ab erioribus non
immunis, et in multis castigandus: nullique dubita-
Auin
mus, ex defuncti ossibus, citra omnem humanitatem
conculcatis, tandem aliquando vltor sit exoriturus
Sedhae cum laruis vribrisque luctationes sunt seviculi
momenti, et vix floccifaciendae, si cum acerrima, quaenu-
per exarsit, contentione de ivre directoque Ingliae in
dco-

## Folio 86v — DE-611-HS-866691:0172
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Scoliam dominio conferantur: prout elato animo stiloque
aseruit Atmordus, esocietate interioris templi hic apud
nos luris consultus, cuius liber, argumentis veteribus que
chartis, ex Archiuorum forulis et veteris aui Historicis
affatim congestis, suffarcinatias, iissu ordinum hcotiae
nuperrime ab infami manu exustus fuit. Aduersus hasce
incurias, et Scoti queruntur, calumniose impactas, Sophi
sticas que cauillationes, quidam ex ista genite Antiquarius
nomine Andersonus, vindicias animose opposuit, quae
tantopere placent, ut illi ob labores in tuendis patriae iiri–
bus strenue impensos quadringentas libras sterlingi–
cas in munus honorarium ex fisco annumerandas
esse iidem Ordines decreuerint. Nondum autem exem-
plaria in officinis nostris librariis veneunt, quae =den-
burgo huc transmittenda auide expectamus, ut de praelau-
dato syntagmate rectum integrum que icdicium, posthabito
omni partium stuclio, ferre possimus. Alii metuant, con–
trouersiam hanc, multis malis, ni pacifica interueni-
aut consilia, granidam, calamo vix posse decidi: ego
malus augus esse nolo.
Gratissimum est quod scribis, linguarum Lhaniciae vete-
ris que Hispani cae Alphabeta eruendi spem efsulgere
Sed quol ad scripturam Lalmyrenorum spectat, cum characte
re

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res in inscriptionibus istis, Fraiecti ad shenum ante septen
nium editis , male effictae sint, et Rienferdium inpericulio
suis magno praectaro que ausu excidisse propemodum
constet, maxitrum subsidium, huic investigationi feliciter
Consumandae necessarium, eduobus monimentis Palmis
renis, quae adhuc Romae supersunt, in praesens petendum
est. Sed ipse amplissimus Cuperus id viderit. Non pos
sum tamen, quin hic suggeram, quentam Analum, dum
ante octo annos in ista principe vibe esset, madida
pasuro marmori applicita, integros versus breniculae
inscriptionis, cuius apud Gruterum et Sponium aestat
typus, valde deformatus, invicemque dissimilis, inde
cum
figuris inuersis expressos exsiccari incepisset, atramen–
to cum omnibus ductibus delineasse, ut in Actis Philo-
Sophicis Regiae docietatis Londinensis, numero cexvut
videre est. Sed negotia publica, quibus auspicato ad
motus fuisti, diutius interpellare neque convenit
neque decet. Vale vir praestantissime, et solito sa
uore tui observantissimum amplecti perge.
Destmonasterri 12. Sept. Stilo luliano A. C. 170r.

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