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# Catalogue record: 48543 — Th. Smith an Leibniz
# Incipit: Literis tuis, Vir amplissime,
# Date: 1708-05-21 (08-05-10)
# Sender: Smith, Th. — Addressee: Leibniz
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=48543&katnr=18843
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866691
# Title: LBr. 872 · Smith, Th.
# Folios: Bl. 109 (from the shelfmark LBr 872 Bl. 109(-110)): 2 pages, canvases 217–218, page ids DE-611-HS-866691:0217 to DE-611-HS-866691:0218
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866691&page=217
# Lines: 45 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.96
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## Folio 109r — DE-611-HS-866691:0217
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 110v); this page is its right half.
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Nestmonasterui d. X. Maii 1708.
Literis tuis, vic amplissime, per sesquiannum frustra exspe-
etatis, subuereri caeperam, ne memoria mei ex animotuo pe
nitus excidisset; sed iam accepta tua Scriptorum historiae
Brunsuicensium inservientium sylloge, huc D. Lombarti cura
ad me transmissa, isti sive errori, sive miquae suspicioni prom
ptus renuncio, et propter hoc novum beneuoli ergame
affectus tuo indicium, quem perennem fore probonitate
indolis tuae mihi spondere pene audebo, non parum. lator
et triumpho. Facile autem arbitraberis, hoc perinsigne
munus, quo me impotitus est, mihi longe gratissimum
fuisse, et pari honore et existimatione, quam merito vin
dicat, semper habitum iri. Sed cum referendo non sim par
nec onguam, quae est infelicitas mea, esse queam; specota
men solas hasce gratias, sed solermes, sed a sincero pe
dorex et a debito fidae amicitiae sensu, cuius oberet sorc-
tus usque percixio fluentes, cuiuspiam redhostimenti
apud te vicem supplere. An magis vero tuam incolligen
dis digerendisque tot authoribus, memoriis, excerptis
ad historiam Brunsuicensium illustrandam maxime facien
tibus

## Folio 109v — DE-611-HS-866691:0218
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 110r); this page is its left half.
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libus, industriam et diligentiam  an sagax sabactum que iudi-
eium panmentis in re Aitiquaria, paritee ac m abstrusissi
ele
mis Geometriae accanis prosequendis in extinctum ardo-
rem, inexhaustumque vigotem mirari deleam
possum facile apud me statuere. sed hoc certum fixumque
habeo, quod hoc praedlarissimo opere, aliisque, omnium
historiarum, et veri studio ducuntur, gratiam initunis
sis, et non de sola patria, quantum tamen et quam solen-
didum est theatrum Germania, sed de oniverso orbeli-
terario, quaqua versum iam patet, et qua qua per omnem
deinceps posteritatem patebit, sis quoque optime meriturus.
Sed in laudes tuas effusior non ibo. Patere autem, et tibi
in memoriam reuocem, quid adte de manuscripto co-
dice 13 ravo D. Bernasdi, a Lipsiensibus contra omne
ius fasque adhuc detento, pridem scipserim. Si nolint
in lucem publicam propediem edere; tua ope, authoritate
tua curabis, quod iterum obnixe precor, ut mihi re-
stituatur; sin vero censueris, huicliti immisceri
infra dignitatem tuam fore, tum, si placet, vel paucis
sggere, quomodo quibus consiliisquo intercessore mi-
hi otendum sit, ut ince coram Praetore agam. Vale, vis
celeberrime. Nestmonasterri X. die Mari. stylo An-
glicano A. C. MDCCVIII.