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# Catalogue record: 57195 — Des Bosses an [Leibniz]
# Incipit: Paucis antequam postremas literas Tuas mihi sane jucundissimas acciper
# Date: 1716-03-07
# Sender: DesBosses — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA II (assigned, not yet published)
# Other printings: -Gerhardt, PhilSchr 2 S.511-513. -Janet (2.Aufl.) 2 S.597 (teilw.) -Zehetner: Briefwechsel mit Des Bosses, 2007, S. 345-349.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=57195&katnr=K+6431
# The Leibniz-Archiv's transcriptions of the letters of 1716 (pre-edition): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-transkriptionen-1716
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-958680
# Title: LBr. 95 · DesBosses
# Folios: Bl. 224–225 (from the shelfmark LBr 95 Bl. 224-225): 4 pages, canvases 453–456, page ids DE-611-HS-958680:0453 to DE-611-HS-958680:0456
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-958680&page=453
# Lines: 83 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.95
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## Folio 224r — DE-611-HS-958680:0453
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le 3os
dunsdu st. Fonsere  di se patrei
Intaeria graslassi
Mustrissime Domune Patione Colendissime
Daucis antequam postremas literas luus mihi sane juun-
dissimas acciperem diebus, nescio unde auditione aceperam
le pejuscule valere sed falsum fuisse rumorem illum pene
persuaserunt et dolorem meum absterserunt siterae illae Tuce
quae non modo nihil tale indicant, sed potius alia omma.
Dissertationem Tuam de Theologia naturali Sinensium
ubi lucem aspenerit, lubentissime videbo, respondebit utique illa
Fuis de Philosoptira fo-mana cogitatis, et Eruditorum omnium
saltem eorum qui nulli parti adduti sunt suffragia auseret.
Duis nunc sit Japonicce rei status quae spes, cognosces e
Fronsecce nostri litens, quas, ante quam responderem enpectan
das putavi, et hisca adiatas repenes.
In libello quodam, autore uti fertur goanne Dezio nostro aute
annos 16 Leodii edito quaedam invenio, quae ad infirmandam
Nicolai Longobardi et Antoru a Samta Maria autoritatem
faciunt. Summa huc redit: Nongobardum fuusse quidem
pielate ac zelo praestantem sed Scientis Phitosophiui Theologisisque
non perinde encaltam, ut pote qui apud nos ne prositso quaederi
224

## Folio 224v — DE-611-HS-958680:0454
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gradum obtimuent. Deinde Longobardum ea scripsisse dum
serverent iste quaestiones, non ut typis ea mandaret sed ut
propositis tunc inde objectionibur de re rota meluis solurusqu)
posset judican. Unde cum a Navarreta Dominicano opusculum
Longobardi editum sit in Hispana, sicut titutur mutatur ett, potu–
erunt et alia multa immutai per additionem vel debractionemet
Antonim vero a S. Mana virum alioqui prum ac Religiosum
Teste Datre Sarpetii dominuano qui aliquor annot cum eodem
vixit adeo frusse proposito renacem, ut in rebus etiam facilibus
et obvqs a propria sententia discedere vire unquam passet eto
si operae pretium censes, nuttam ad te pronime locum totume
Dezu descriptum.
Caeterum cum rec lndicae tantopere tibi sint cordi, signitico
degere nunc Hildesi P. Stephanum Bremmer e Societate nostra
virum insigniter probum doctumque et mihi anicum a multis
annis, qui postquam indias Luptanas octo vel novem annonim
spatio Caboribus sini eucoluisset, ab Archiepiscopo Granganoren-
si negotiorum causa Romam missu, morbo correptus in Europa
consistere et ad Provinciam nostram unde exierat, redire jussus
est a majoribus. Ab hoc oculato teste plurima cum labebit
audies eadem, opinor voluptate qua ego Saepius ab ore narran-
dis pependi. advolabit, sico, ad nutum tuum.
Fametsi Harduiniana Conciliorum editio in Gallia distrati velita
aut saltem suspensa sit eo quod quaedam in illa continer
ab Ecclesiae Gallicance sensu aliena ponnulli contendant
intelligo tamen e bibliopolis nostris plurima jam illuu exempla–
ria haberi in Belgio ita ut biblcopole duodeum universae iditio-
nis exemplaria assumere velint, possint singula habere proprelio
Texaginta daterorum imperialium.

## Folio 225r — DE-611-HS-958680:0455
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Postremus Hagiographorum Tomus, cujus Synopsin lusce adjocio) hic haberi
potest, voenitque septem daleus imipenalibius. mittam illum adimatiatam
Si jubes, una cum Historia Juvenucana (constante ut alius dixi quinque
imperialibes) adiiciamque existolus Abbalis ad Epuscopum a me calore
redditas, ut judicare possii num apere prelium fecemm.
Philippus Bonanmis noster, ut audio senio jam tructus, viu spen
nobis facit edendae quam promiserat continuationis bibliothecae
Scriptorum nostrorum, non deent tamen aluus qui caeptu paticcat
Dominus Gerardus Forneluy von den Driesch, en quo à nobis exit
necdum huc Colone visus, subsistit, credo, apud Ill. cornitem de
Nesselraede in Herten, cujus filios in hoc Gymnasio nostio pauuis ante
at
annis disciprilas nactus fuecat. vir est minime mulus sed ingenio
magis ad humaniores disciplinus quam seveiiores idoneus. favi ei semper
quoad potru, sed judicium in eo non pauci desiderant. Spes certe
ob quas a nobis abstractus valgo putatur, fallaces fuisse runutandem
intelligit. Vicem vin boni doleo. sid qua in re ipsi prodesse possim
non video.
Statueram hisce min addere separatim (: exemplo Tuo) quaedam ad
phulosophicus ruas meditationus posteriores annotata, sed cum ea necdo
in mundum rediger cicuent, differenda erunt ad proximum usque
cursorem. Vale interum ver illustrissime, et ignosa quod tam
sero respondcam. Dabam Colomae 7 Mart 1716
llustrissima domination Tuae
s Thcodicaeae negotium belle procedit
revedent eam vin Eruditissimi quos
maxime optabam.
Hartsoeleri responsum, si oblitus fui
mane landem motto
evotissi mus
artholomaen resrisse

## Folio 225v — DE-611-HS-958680:0456
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