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# Catalogue record: 6959 — Leibniz an Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
# Incipit: Ex longinquo itinere redux, compositis nonnihil domi rebus, nihil anti
# Date: 1690-08-03 (90-07-24)
# Sender: Leibniz — Addressee: Seckendorff
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA I,5 N. 377
# Other printings: Grua: Textes, 1948, S. 199-200 (teilw.)
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=6959&katnr=10151
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# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866575
# Title: LBr. 854 · Seckendorff
# Folios: Bl. 69–70 (from the shelfmark LBr 854 Bl. 69-70): 4 pages, canvases 141–144, page ids DE-611-HS-866575:0141 to DE-611-HS-866575:0144
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866575&page=141
# Lines: 92 recognised on 3 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.94
# 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 69r — DE-611-HS-866575:0141
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Lcibnitius 
Seckendorfio
Ccusctissime ac Generosessime domine
longinquo Hinere redux, Compositis nonnihil domi rebus nihil
antiquins habui, en offieui genere, quo me cum aliis agregris viris,
tum maxime libi facile principe obstriclum sentio, ut ratio illis aliqua
reddatur dliscursationii meae. dussu igitur Serenissime scrincipis
in Superiore Germania primum vestigia rerum Guelficarum investi
gavi, et non pauca ex monumentis erur; sed cum meminissem
Guelfi Barariae ducii patrem fuisse Marchionem Htalorum trans
alpini ilineris necessitatem mihi impositam judicavi, et post multas
investigationis irritas comperi demum, sepultum jacere eum conjuge sua
Canigunde, veterum Guelforum herede, in monasterio quodam non provab
Rhodigio, quod hodie vocatur la Dadia, ubi et Epitaphium marita vivente
uxori positum sarie memorable, quod incipit:
dita cumguldis regali stemmate fulsi.
et mox:
Genmine Nesfontic magni sum nata Alemanni
et de marito.
A2o vir prudens magnui qui  larchio fulget
itemque de eodem
populis locupletior ullur
Aland viget, Italia haud similem peperit
Tende magnam jam tum Azonci potentiam et illustrem stirsem
fuisse facile nitellugas. Repperiautem bonam longobardia et
liguria partem sub ejus ditione fuisse; filium etiam vyonem
quelfi ducis fratrem, sed ex alia matre Cenomannis in Gallia
unde maxer venerat, Comitistituto praefuisse. Deprehendi etiam
in supradicto Monasterio, et in
c
Sabulario Mhutinensi reliquorum

## Folio 69v — DE-611-HS-866575:0142
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ehonisfiliorum nomina, et quomodo ab us stirps in Halia peo
pagata unde Marchiones estenses qui postea ferrariae et Mutina
duies. Illud autem maxime memotabile visum est, ramum
Ialicum suas ditiones, diviso patrimonio acceptas, a Guelsi
Bavariae ducii stirpe, ipsoque adeo Henrico Leone et Guelfo
spoleti duce, feudali beneficio tenuisse. Et eum clarissimi viri
Ducangus, autor magni cGtossaru mediae atatis, Christophorui
sustellus et in ipsa Germania Nerbomius et Sagittarius
harere sese circa connexionem estensium cum nostrir, et
certiora documenta depiderare profiterentur; ego rem nunc
omnem in clara luce collocavi, discussis tenebris, quas ester
ses scriptorei ossuderant, nominibus et temporibui plane
carrustis et perturbatis. Sed milto ista, quae noctros quidem
tangunt; aliii autem minus curantur.
Du vero majus opus movisti, illustrissime vir quo
omne protestantium nomen sibi mirifice obstringes. Et
eum a fratre intellexerim exemplum prima partis sua
munificentia mihi destinatum, profeito padore suffundor
ac mayis etiam metud, nesilentiam meum ingrati hominis
essej judicaveris. Sed veniam fpero a locorrem intervallis, quae
mihi interceperant notitiam benificii tui. Nunc vero gratios
ago quas debui dudum, et promerere aliquo obsequigenene
l
opto tam illuetrem benevolentia significationem, qua me
tanto indigniorem agnosco, quanto, tu eminentior menitis
omniqu pplendoris genere fulges. Legi, dudum praeclari
aperis
pecimen permum, nec profeeto hinc admiratione.
et si enim non ignorarem, quanta sit tibi vis doctrinae;

## Folio 70r — DE-611-HS-866575:0143
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stutebam tumen virum, magnis a juventute negotiit
semper excrcitum, omnibus patmant dubram facere, qui
nihil aliued tota vita quara literas coluere.Sed hac quidem
naturae bonitar divino munere tibi concessa non potuit
collocari melius; quam in illustranda Reformationis
Hirtoria, in qua ipsini divinae providentiae consilia
exponuntur. C
et bene est, quod varillasium At Melden
sem Mlamburgio jungis; melius quod tuo potius duitu
nem omnem altiur repetitam tractas, et quae omnium
interet sater scire ex tabulariorum tenebris in lucem producir
Ita non amplius Burnetum Angliae invidebimus; qua
satius, mvidiam aliis faciemur,
Jeum precor
ex animo, ut vires tibi annosque sufficiat, quo vacet
scromovere longius pedem, et Hsistoriam Germaniae sacram
ad noitra usque tempora producere Jametsi enim nesciam
an hoc sibi propositum sit, optem tamen invitante
ipso sucressu subnasei, et rebus rationibusque tuis 
convenire consilium; quo nullum gloriosius tibi, nullum
cruditis gratius capere posses. Sed ego propie oblitur
sum ad tantai tes gerendas tibi tempore apus esse, quod
vanii interpellationibus disperdi non debet.
vale et fave
Itaque
Dabam Hanoverae 24 jul. 1b90
ill mac et Geaerosissimae
Tonsueur de seckandort
penstae t. estat le sa6
dominationis vestrae
obstrictissimus servus
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## Folio 70v — DE-611-HS-866575:0144
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