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# Catalogue record: 52611 — [Cuper] für [Leibniz]: betr. Münzen mit Elephanten
# Incipit: Elephas. Mea de Elephante lucubratio
# Date: 1711-02
# Sender: Cuper — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA V (assigned, not yet published)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=52611&katnr=6914
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1711 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1711
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958582
# Title: LBr. 187 · Cuper
# Folios: Bl. 147 (from the shelfmark LBr 187 Bl. 147): 2 pages, canvases 295–296, page ids DE-611-HS-958582:0295 to DE-611-HS-958582:0296
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958582&page=295
# Lines: 35 recognised on 2 of 2 pages, mean confidence 0.81
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## Folio 147r — DE-611-HS-958582:0295
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# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 79, 2026-09-07T03:33:42Z — 26 lines, status machine
Elephas Mea de Elephante lacutratio in qrandem excvevit molem; induas eandem
divisi exercitationes prima ago de animalis illias fato in Asia ab Alex. M.
temporitus; altera Romanos, Pyrrhum d Carthagincenses persequor.
Maltos autem ine ditos nactus sum nummos, qui elephanto sant insignes, et
unde materia illa illustratur mirifice, interq eos est ectypus argentei, quem
Tyerhas. ipse etiam vidi, quemque putant, nobis repraesentare Pyrrhum quicum Rom-
anis bellum gersit et in siciliam vna cum elephantis trajecit, inventas est
enim in ea insula et ab altera parte exhibet elephantum. Sunt etiam
varii Regumtriae, Aegipti aliorumque, et imprimis duo in hispaniae colonuui
signati, quos et ipse vidi perelegantes, quosque exscriptos et pictos mecum
pBaris
Jacobus a communicavit Jacobus de Bar, qui Batavorum mercatorum res
antiqut.
per no. annos curavit Hispali, et plusquam 800. nummorum omnis
magnitudinu et omnis generis inde deportavit, quales nequidem
in vegus Thejaurrs incenire certam eM. Inspexi et laytravi keun
ria illa, et cum sacro quasihorrore omnium fere coloniarum Hispance
et manicipiorum nummos manibus tractavi.
Mater synago-
gaoum. Vna H quaestio Judaorame synagoga petita, cumque ta veteres res
habeas perspectas, patere, et ex te quoram quae sit Mater
ynagogaram obvia in inscriptione veterc apud sponium, pag.
371
Gordiant mei etiam valde auctipunt.
Bary.
Numme

## Folio 147v — DE-611-HS-958582:0296
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