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# Catalogue record: 49742 — Leibniz an Orban
# Incipit: Incolumem Te ex thermis superioris Germaniae
# Date: 1708-09-04
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Orban
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=49742&katnr=19136
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1708 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1708
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-860751
# Title: LBr. 699 · Orban
# Folios: Bl. 40–41 (from the shelfmark LBr 699 Bl. 40-41): 4 pages, canvases 81–84, page ids DE-611-HS-860751:0081 to DE-611-HS-860751:0084
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-860751&page=81
# Lines: 162 recognised on 4 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.85
# 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.
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## Folio 40r — DE-611-HS-860751:0081
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deverendissime pater
Fautor monoratissime
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Incolumem CE ex thernis superioris Germanie domuu
pedis
toto ejus tempore non extra curam metumque fuissem
interest haud dubre Rerpullicae, ut domus vestra
inclyta pluribus mummentis insistat
Legati Lusitani erormia postulata ubique
risa spretaque sunt. ipterea in optimam
bene expientes hoc
Reginam omnesque ejes amantes harecidit
ut jucundissimo colloquio privarentu. Itaque
2
neque Electrisderenissima neque dux Antouius
anson Gbis
Urricus cum ea colloqui potuere; hoc ipsum
ut appares) quaerenteegatout Reginam tanquam
in arca clausam circumferret. Noluit Elextrci
concedere quod Rex Hispaniae concesserat Electori
d aest
suum ceetet Reginae. Nescio quid etiam invenit
ejus lilis
in potestatendam
ut Regina Augusti Regis uxor cum Lnsitana
congredi non posset. Sed quid aliud ea re quam
repulsas obfinuit
Miror ne piis quidem causis in Bavaria
omnium
abquid indulueri. sed haec belli asperrim mala
sunt. Speramus insulas Flandlicas mox

## Folio 40v — DE-611-HS-860751:0082
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Foederatorum
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si tamen hostis Ganvavum prugasaue retinet
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illam non exiguum est, quod secundo
muptum lurrati simus: usi quod
vnardum praetio
Ato
milit nostro audacia crevit, hossi tantundem
vigoris decesit. Intelligo tamen exnarra-
tione quam pectator vir summus et rei
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scientissumus ad me misit parum
la
veus
abfuisse. sletle qua jndubia
sut
cladem nos dsa
situra uat si hostit ut priuum poterati partem
p. e
Cladem nostram sutoram sigissi
lexercitus nostra scaldin transgressam, inva-
sisset: qua etiam vendomiiertentiam fuisse
vidicipostea apparet exi nescro cujus Ggalli literis x
quae in publicum emanarunt; sed feliciter
conticut ut vendomio tune nono optime cum
zurgundrae duce conveniret ad eoc
consilia ejus pondus non haberent.
scripsi ad Batavos suasiqus ut a Batavia
 Sinae hactertantu, aliquod
atriis euulitos
aujus jentis eruditos in literis is habenes in
lvenest
curopam ac cersant idque facturos puto, nam
consilum probavit, vir inter directores societatis
indicae srientalis eminiens.
sicardinalis
Turnonius incolummus rediit gandebo: a legatione
v
potest
ejus non multum expectari utilitatis:
tatia
nau ea de quibus ille cognoscere debebat paucis
cum
mensibus visci non possunt. Annis pluribus opus
vix sutti ciant
ubi in huropa scholae sinenses habebuntur

## Folio 41r — DE-611-HS-860751:0083
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piusgentis
literes librosque eorum non minus quam Arabesos
legere licebit;tia
a
fum demum de controversis, quae agitantur saeo
accurate sd judicari poterit. interim para
apienter meo judicio facit, quod sententrae
aute
honuntiationem Dri
s
cers aut remperat
Quidam Berolini novilu
isticem
tavit, qqua sit ad inensiun scripturae
exemplum unibersalis, sed facilius multo disci
sit. Sed tale quid jam olim excogitavit
pus
Wilkinsius Cestriensis Exiscopus cujus ea
s
cem
se re insigne apus habeo. Sed ego talia
c
non magni fatio, quia video intsari aliqui
posse uet excogitati sublimius, charastels
fict
scilicet, quo non tantum inserviant ad omnia
exprimenda, sed etiam suppeditent quendam
alculum Rationis, cujus ope veritates quas
ex
per rationem certo consequi licet, possent
1. modo inda
ipses charagteribus seu scribendi
tari propemodum ab in Aritimetica
lgebraque. Id foret rerum organda huma
na mentis omnibus aliis praestantius, quod
Microscopia
utilitate sua omnia celescopra k
imvinceret. Tale nemini quod sciam hactenu
s
tamen niuil est certius
in ientem venistoation
sed non nisi a pilosoiio admodum profundo
anqui V fundas et acuirannses
ard ba
contici pote
revum. intelligibiliam definitionesdare
possit; qua in re ego magno a multis annis
cam

## Folio 41v — DE-611-HS-860751:0084
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studio laboravi. Regma prassiae, quae
protundae erat meditationis, mire hac cogilatio
dele bbavatur eamus totis viribus adjuvare e
decreverat, sed morte prohibita
e
si semel
ex cogptatas esset ista craracterpancis drebus
la
disu et ablomnibus in usum transferri
posset utilitatis autem foret, immensa
in omnibus quae ratione consequilice
sane princeps qui cujus anspicis ea res perfieretu
minsice mereretur de guere humano,
sed hoc mlitari seculo pauci sunt qui
Res autem non prius
quam perfecta est in vulius emanare
debet, quod non est idoneus tatium
adex.
inovero
ale
Onkui
deoilissimum
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ot
sumi
fessar
atam
Rectoris parla
diban