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# Catalogue record: 51460 — [Des Bosses], Confluentia 12 7_bris, für [Leibniz]: [Abschrift eines Briefes betr. die Verhandlungen in Rom über die Jesuiten in China]
# Incipit: P. Ptolemei nostris nihil minus cogitantibus
# Date: 1709-09-20
# Sender: DesBosses — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=51460&katnr=45510
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1709 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1709
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958680
# Title: LBr. 95 · DesBosses
# Folios: Bl. 86–87 (from the shelfmark LBr 95 Bl. 86-87): 4 pages, canvases 175–178, page ids DE-611-HS-958680:0175 to DE-611-HS-958680:0178
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958680&page=175
# Lines: 60 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.96
# 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 86r — DE-611-HS-958680:0175
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 87v); this page is its right half.
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Confluentia 12 7bris
Peolemaei nostris nihhil minus cogitantibus die Dominico
id est 4 Angusti ad alloquium Dontificis evocatus obtilit
pervosam causae Sinensis ad examen retractie multisque
recentibus documentis et probationibuo instructae exitomen
quam simul compendiose suae sanctitati exposuit. Ex quo
die Lunae per triduum in omnibus ecclesgi indicta denuo
fuit collerta de Spiritu Sancto. Due Joris, id est 8 Augusti
indicta fuit causae Sinensi tandem de cidendae congregatio
de S. Officio, cui non interfuit cardinalis sacripanti.
sive studio, sive infirmitate impeditus. Pestracta hac con-
gregatio fuit ad sca horas. C numero deuem cardlium
qui hanc Congregationem constituebent, uidicerunt nostii
seu favisse causre nostrae, nempe Cardinales Spada, Pau-
Tucci, Sperelli, Gabrieli, fiabroni, OHoboni. Imo addunt
Cardinalem Ilarescotti Certa solidissima P. Ptolomaer
informatione ita fuisse convictum ut ab illo die iumo
Maigrot omne sui in causa sinensi alloquium recusant
et confessario suo Patri Bolgi haud obscure se paulatim
in partes nostras propendere insinuanit. A congregatione
illa enclusus frat P. Commissanus Dominicanus, magister
facri Palatus. Ultmis Dnus Banchieni postquam a
Pontifice adjuratus fuisset ut quue eoram Deo judicaret
proponenda ediceret, per horam integram cum manimu
energia prosarum Christiamtati sinensi et socielate
peroravit.
an Bian-
Mhini

## Folio 86v — DE-611-HS-958680:0176
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Quid denique conclusum suent, non constat, quamvis indicia
haud obscura vedeantur victoriam fuisse a nobus, vel potus
Deum viusse causam suam. Paulo ante congregationem
Dontiteu de materia illa cocutus fuit patri Ptolemer
et finita congregatione patri Baldigiani ad se auersito
aliqua sub altissimo silentio insincavit. Illmius orius Albani
dixit p. Saterno, sibi evidens esse patus nostros vicisse.
Cardinales nobus adduti e congregatione reduces notati sunt
supra modum hilares optime qt contenti. atque haec sunt
Auguria ex quibus e optime speramus.
Impenetrabilis tugus decreti curiosissimi Scrutatores
divinant decretum in Congregatone ultima (confectum
continere tria 1 ut admullatur appellatio Episcopi
Ascalonensus contra Cardinalem de Tdurnon. 2 ul
Suspendatur decretum quidem Cardeu et S. Ofsius
ut pernittantur ritus illi sinenses donec magis
de contrario constitent, ne in dubio praejudicium afse
ratur nova ehristiantati prohibendo illa quae alis
pontifices et in specie Aleuander VII et Clemens lX
Concessere.
His non obstantibus senbit Roma P. Molitore
causam nostram in summo versari periculo. Videtur
nihil erupturum nisi post bienmum quando decisio
ea sinis perscribetur uti factum est in pprion decreto
Illmus D. tannibal Albam nepos Pontificus Statuent

## Folio 87r — DE-611-HS-958680:0177
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 86v); this page is its right half.
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in legatione sua entrachdinane secum duceu Datrem Talepnu
sed pontiseu judicaoit non expedire, ne minus benigne sossan
eriperctur a principibus phrotestantibus, quibus lescuta inoisi
sunt. Itaque designatus est quidum Sacerdos e muissionars
qui nepotem conmbetur. Ultimus cursor Roma attulu
Imperatorem nolle ut legetum extruorinarum recipere duum
Albami nisi prius purpura condecoratum

## Folio 87v — DE-611-HS-958680:0178
# Scan: One image of two folio pages side by side, registered by the library under both labels (also fol. 86r); this page is its left half.
# No recognised text on this page (recognized).