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Quandoquidem vero II. hocce in Lexico omnes cafus, genera, tempora &c. contractarum vocum haud adfervata funt (nimiam enim libri molem fumtusque damnofos omni studio vitavit Auctor) æqui bonique confules, Lector benevole & erudite, nonnihil tuifmet cogitationibus & meditationibus relictum effe. Etenim fi forfit verbum illud, in quo mens tua verfabitur, cum omnibus litteris & fyllabis non illico obviam concurrat, aderit tamen, velut Jeds and unxavis, alius Cafus vel Genus &c, quæ verum obfcuræ vocis fenfum luculenter declarabunt. Sic in Lexico præfenti non expreffum eft fii, filii, cum tamen haud exulent fi filius, fie, filiæ, fim filium, & fio filio. Ex quibus facile intelligitur (ne quid jam de contextu magnarum difficultatum remedio præftantiffimo dicamus) To fit hoc loco fignificare filii, non autem fieri, licet & ipfum in μ redactum antiquitus per fii innutum efle, exploratum fit.

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Denique huic operi immortale decus conciliant Alphabeta abfolutiffima & integra fpecimina fcripturæ ex diplomatibus, chartis & Codicibus omnis ævi defumta, non folum accommodatiffima ad veram ætatem cujusvis Codicis cognofcendam, fed & ad rectum judicium de cujuscunque Diplomatis & veterum Documentorum fide ferendum.

Totum opus, ut vides, a capite ad calcem Tabulis æneis conftat, quod tanta veterum & infolitarum figurarum multitudo non typis mobilibus, fed in æs incifis, exfignari potuit. Licet vero hocce inftitutum quam maximos fumtus efflagitaverit, omnia tamen ita provifa funt, ut etiam Privatorum utilitati confuleretur, quos æquiffimum pretium a coëmendo hocce Thefauro non arcebit. Neque eft, cur quis de fumma Chalcographorum diligentia male opinetur, fi quidem folertiffimus Auctor non modo ipfe omnia ærumnabili labore delineavit, fed prima illorum fpecimina omni cura atque ftudio perluftravit, ut adeoque vix ullum áλua irrepere potuerit.

Verum enim vero plura jam præfari nihil attinet; vino enim vendibili parum opus effe fufpenfa hedera, ex veteri pariterque veriffimo adagio omnes novimus. Antequam tamen te dimittam, Lector candide, paucis adhuc docendus eras, me minime aufurum fuiffe, æterni Operis vestibulum inani hac præfatione occupare, nifi Vir, dum viveret, fummus mihique amiciffimus, Joannes Godefredus de Meiern, JCtus, Comes Palatinus Cæfareus, Potentiffimique Regis noftri, quem Deus fervet! Confiliarius Juftitiæ intimus, ac Archivi Electoralis Præpofitus (cujus aufpiciis æreque collato hic Thefaurus in publicum prodit) me & diptychis, qui ad manum funt, & crebra allocutione, qua usque ad fupremam Viri horama) mihi frui licuit, commoviffet, ut binas priores præfatiunculas, quas & ejusdem jussu, præmiflo Fratrum Schmidiorum nomine, confcripfi, retractarem, iisdemque, fi quid in fchedis haberem, fuperadderem. Poft fata razapíry eo minus fas mihi fuit, provinciam a Tanto Viro, etfi me imparem effe fatis callerem, relictam fubterfugere, quod omni encomio major hujus Lexici Auctor, Fautor atque Amicus meus, dum fpiritus hos regit artus, perpetua obfervantia colendus, nollet, ne id, quod beatæ & nunc inter cælites triumphanti animæ promiferam, exfolverem; præcipue cum Ampliffimus Celeberrimusque in hacce Academia Hiftoriarum Profeffor Joannes David Kælerus, aliis negotiis impeditus, amplioris, quam in fe fufceperat inque libri frontifpicio fpoponderat, præfationis confectionem deprecatus effet, eundemque honorem, quo tali me haud unquam dignatus fum, ex fingulari benevolentia in me tranfcriberet. Vive valèque Lector! hæc fcire tua forte intererat. Scr. Gottingæ prid, kal. Julii. A. MDCCXLVII.

*) Defiit vivere a. d. XXI. Octobr. A. MDCCXLV. circa horam decimam antemeridianam,

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