Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              nem per partes ſingulas etiam minimas
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              oſtendit, ita quę ab arte pendet cum graci­
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              litate iuncta omninò eſt inutilis. </s>
              <s id="s.011643">Verùm in
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              vnoquoque quod tenuiſſimum eſt poſſe, ac
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              ſcire ſegregare, diuinę cuiuſdam artis eſt
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              opus. </s>
              <s id="s.011644">Atque in hoc genere pręcellunt Indi,
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              qui pennis minoribus pſittacorum, tum aui­
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              cularum quarundam, imagines quaſcunque,
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              ita ad viuum effingunt, vt neque repręſenta­
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              tione, neque venuſtate, aut ſubtilitate pi­
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              cturę cedant: ſplendore verò etiam vincant.
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              <s id="s.011645">Opus diuturnum, & quod arundinibus non
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              digitis attexitur atque perficitur. </s>
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              Artificum
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              exempla
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              ſubtilitatis
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              mira.
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              <s id="s.011647">Memnonis
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              ſtatas.</s>
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              Opera parua
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              ſubtilia, fra­
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              gilia.</s>
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              <s id="s.011649">Artes autem ſubtilitate præſtantes, ta­
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              metſi diuinæ non ſint, inueniuntur Inter has
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              quatuor toto genere ſunt clariores: Magia,
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              Notarum Occultandi, & Chymiſtica. </s>
              <s id="s.011650">Adii­
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              ciamus & quædam harum exempla. </s>
              <s id="s.011651">Nota­
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              rum ſit, veluti cùm ad te ingreditur. </s>
              <s id="s.011652">Sunt
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              autem notæ in timorum animi affectuum
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              verba oculorum motus, cauſa, locus tem­
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              pus, animi mores, corporis habitus, ſpe­
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              cies, ſocietas, conſcientia tua, potentia, oc­
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              caſio, quam arripit. </s>
              <s id="s.011653">Hæc ſi rectè conſidera­
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              bis, quid in animo habeat qui ad te venit,
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              facilè intelliges. </s>
              <s id="s.011654">Quandoque ex tribus tan­
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              tùm diuinare licebit. </s>
              <s id="s.011655">Venit inimicus ad te,
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              celeri gradu, intentis oculis: abſque armis
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              ſenex, para linguam: ſi cum armis iuuenis,
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              para manus: hoc tantillo tamen licet ſerua­
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              re vitam ac decus. </s>
              <s id="s.011656">Iam non eſt cur ſingula
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              diſcutiam.
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              Quæ artes
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              ſubtilitate
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              præſtantes.</s>
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              Tres modi
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              literas oc­
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              cultandi,
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              tranſmutan­
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              di, primus,
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              cum tribus
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              literis omnia
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              ſcribendo.</s>
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              <s id="s.011659">Sed ad occultandi rationem venio. </s>
              <s id="s.011660">Tri­
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              plex hæc eſt: tranſmutandi, quæ in vſu, vt
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              de Cæſare olim Suetonius, velut ſi pro a, d,
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              pro b, n ſcribatur. </s>
              <s id="s.011661">Eſt autem infinitorum
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              generum. </s>
              <s id="s.011662">Secundus tranſlatione fit, atque
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              hic duplex. </s>
              <s id="s.011663">Primus, cum tribus literis ( gra­
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              tia exempli
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              )
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              omnia ſcribimus, facilius au­
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              tem addita aſpiratione, ne quid in his pror­
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              ſus præter hanc ſit varietatis. </s>
              <s id="s.011664">Cb‘abb‘aacb‘
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              acaccab‘bb‘ababbbaa cabbca‘abb‘abcbacab
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              bbb ‘acabbcbbabbabb ‘ab ‘b cba abbaac b
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              ‘b ‘aac ababb bab cabcbbbac bbb ‘aa ac
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              aaabaa bbb ‘cacbabb ‘aba cababbaa‘ca‘abb
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              ca‘ cbabab. </s>
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              <s id="s.011665">Alter tranſlationis modus eſt, vt deliteſ­
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              cant, in quibuſdam ſuſcipionis nota qua­
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              dam, vt Laconica ſcytala, in aliis nulla pe­
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              nitus relicta, qui modus eſt elegantiſſimus.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011666">Nam membranas duas æquales accipies de­
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              lineatas ad ſcribendum, atque in ipſis lineis
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              foramina ſparſim è regione in vtraque par­
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              ua, ſed tamen pro elementorum magnitudi­
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              ne ſeu altitudine facies. </s>
              <s id="s.011667">Quædam ſeptem,
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              quædam tria, quædam octo, vel decem ele­
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              menta continebunt, vt omnia ſimul forami­
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              na 120. elementa ſimul iunctis omnibus quę
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              inſcribi poſſunt contineant. </s>
              <s id="s.011668">Harum alte­
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              ram dabis illi ad quem ſcribere deſideras.
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              <s id="s.011669">Cùm verò opus eſt, ſcribere primùm ſen­
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              tentiam tuam quam breuiſſimè potes, ſic vt
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              numerum elementorum minorem conti­
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              neat ſententia quàm is eſt quem capiunt
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              interualla. </s>
              <s id="s.011670">Inde in membrana ſuppoſita fo­
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              raminibus ſcribes eam ſententiam, atque
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              item in alia atque alia: demum imple ſpatia
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              primæ membranæ ſententias complendo,
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              delendo, implendo, donec ſenſus
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              . </s>
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                <expan abbr="Hãc">Hanc</expan>
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              ſecundam ſententiam complebis in ſecunda
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              membrana, ſic vt verba, & ſententia cohæ­
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              rere videantur: in tertia quoque ita apta­
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              bis, vt illeſis primis literis, ſententia tota
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              verborum numerus, magnitudoque
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              ,
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              ac concinnitatem retineant. </s>
              <s id="s.011672">Quibus peractis
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              ſuperpone exemplar quod præcidiſti mem­
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              branæ coæquali, atque in terminis forami­
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              num puncta tenuiſſima ſignabis eouſque
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              quo literæ pertingant quas ſcribere deſide­
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              ras: tum etiam membranam accipe, epiſto­
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              lamque continuis verbis decenti ſpaciorum
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              ordine, ac magnitudine, tum etiam litera­
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              rum ſic vt prima ſententia, ac verba illius
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              inter punctorum terminos contineantur.
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              <s id="s.011673">Ergo fuci ſuſpicio tunc nulla manet, alter
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              cùm recipit ſuperpoſito exemplari ſenten­
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              tiam animi tui illicò intelligit. </s>
              <s id="s.011674">Nec huic
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              rei tametſi laboris haud leuis ſit, aliquid ad
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              ſignificandam ſententiam periculoſis tem­
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              poribus amicis ſuis par inueniri poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.011675">Præ­
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              ſtat verò ad facilitatem plures huiuſcemodi
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              tabulas habere diuerſis magnitudinibus, or­
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              dinéque diuerſo diſtinctas. </s>
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              Modus
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                dus</expan>
              ſcribendi
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              occultè abſ­
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              que ſuſpi­
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              cione.</s>
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              <s id="s.011677">Tertia occultandi ratio fit, cum literæ alu­
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              mine ſcribuntur: latent enim, immerſæ aqua
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              leguntur, quia aqua membranam reddit ob­
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              ſcuriorem, in qua candicat alumen. </s>
              <s id="s.011678">Quæ ve­
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              rò ſale ammoniaco, apparent dum igni ex­
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              ponuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.011679">Ita aliæ limunij, aliæ ceparum
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              ſucco ſcribuntur, quæ omnes ignibus ex­
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              poſitæ legi poſſunt, ſecùs deliteſcunt. </s>
              <s id="s.011680">Sed
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              opus eſt haud mediocri diligentia. </s>
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              Modus ter­
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              tius ſcriben­
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              di literas,
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              quæ ſolum
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              aquæ im­
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              merſæ, vel
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              igni expoſitæ
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              leguntur.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011682">Papyrus an­
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              tiqua.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011683">Thadeus
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              Dunus.</s>
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              <s id="s.011684">Scribebatur olim papyro quadam craſſa
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              admodum atque ignobili, cuius fruſtum
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              oſtendi mihi Thadeus Dunus diſcipulus
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              meus, nunc medicus egregius, multarúmque
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              linguarum peritus. </s>
              <s id="s.011685">Erat hoc fruſtum literis
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              Græcis inſcriptum: in quo & illud animad­
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              uerti, olim libros Græcos ſolere abſque ac­
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              centibus atque ſpiritibus ſcribi. </s>
              <s id="s.011686">Vetuſtior
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              ætas corticibus lignorum & tabulis ſcribe­
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              bat ligneis. </s>
              <s id="s.011687">In his etiam Hippocratis libri
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              ſcripti ſunt, vt Galenus refert. </s>
              <s id="s.011688">Scribebatur
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              & plumbo. </s>
              <s id="s.011689">Epiſtolæ verò etiam cera. </s>
              <s id="s.011690">Æter­
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              na, vt leges, ære. </s>
              <s id="s.011691">Sed maximum commo­
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              dum Ægyptia papyrus exhibuit. </s>
              <s id="s.011692">Meminit
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              Apuleius in initio libri de Aſino aureo,
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              dicens:
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              Modò ſi papyrum Ægyptiam tu argutia.
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              </s>
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              <s id="s.011693">Nilotici calami inſcriptam non ſpreueris
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              Inſpicere. </s>
              <s id="s.011694">Fuerat & membrana, quæ ex pel­
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              le hœdina etiam nunc frequenti in vſu eſt,
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              diuturnior omnibus chartæ generibus, ſo­
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              lumque ære, quod magni conſtat, inferior.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.011695">Patrum ante noſtram ætatem, cum nondum
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              inuenta eſſet ars imprimendi, libri plerique
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              pergamena ſcribebantur, quod
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              materiam chariorem toleraret. </s>
              <s id="s.011696">Euiluit poſt­
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              modum inuenta imprimendi arte, quoniam
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              charta noſtra, quæ ex telæ lineæ fruſtis fit,
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              diu in aqua maceratis, ac tuſis, & pulte illa
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              ſuper cicotrigonizum æneum tenuiſſimè ex­
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              tenſa, vt aqua effluere poſſit, inde inter fru­
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              ſtra pannorum laneorum repoſita cùm ſic­
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              ceſcit, in mirum candorem, tenuitatem ac le­
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              uitatem tranſit. </s>
              <s id="s.011697">Quæ denuò madefacta aqua
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              in qua lachryma Arabica fuerit diſſoluta,
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              non ſinit atramentum ſpargi. </s>
              <s id="s.011698">Memini ex hoc
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              genere vidiſſe in qua libri, ante inuentam
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              typographicam artem, hiſtoriarum Eutropij </s>
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