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Excerpt from Cosmographia Petri Apiani
L emat;c0r Pomponiùì ille Strab (ius, reliq.picjuefie0graphi teiiqntur.accipeigi tu'r Anti?es emixientifsi'me hoc Cofinograp icum opus n/obis fideliter, eacj; t'o'nfummati'one fupputatuha-, qugin Etolomaei opereleg1folet quod {i pius Le&or diligentilfudiq perlegerit, hamid parum fru&us_ Geographi c: c d\ fciplmee feattig'iffe fumma animi gratitudine pr'ofite/bifur: Hic ea, qug alibi Fpaglim àdoé'cif'sxmmngenqs elucùbrata funt fub quod'àm co\m'perì dio collegi mbs..operseprècium itaqu'e duxi_fore, fi in ma volumine torins mundu òbferuatio com ple&eretur, ne proptey nin1iam pîohxitatem ob? Fcuntatem, tyrficulus Qeogràphicx profefsio st9edio quopiàm 1rretxtu'5 teneaturzvel'p0tius neqpis pauperculus progtetlibiorum multxtudine'm', atque operis Ptdlome_i ac prétij magnitudipé abfierreatur.nihil [ric meam ipfius eruditionem auting3eniumxaèìitomam res efi Buiufmodi qu9: ip, fà fe vcl'approbet, velî explqdat. Equid'em (pero, te mhil'hic in_uehtùriinìi, i qt!od alvequm Cofmographica profefsione.certè fatis pro virili cona tus famà quò adabfolu'tifmmam Cofmogra phiaecogqitionem atque adeo: ' indoor mihi fatis feciffé hacin re iuxta illudpoéticum?n 7nagnùévolui?èfit: mtcnm.faudàtiflsime Prseful, lahorem hunt, qùahkunque lit', hono a'iizm'o pletari tux*ìme d'ediclari pafiziris. Non efi doufi, fed antiqudrum j: riptorèé folebrmt (vt bnmnibu5*petfpeéìum efi )'ad nouos libelloé p_gtro nos epgere, qu (ì'aufpicio libri oddam robur atq; authonta$ ai: \cedetet, iquòdin hac xe nie o-pinor be fecifte, iuxtg fentétxqm plinianam, multu valdèpreciofiz vìdèntur, quìatemplia?nt dimra. Vale do tifsime Priniceps, integjritate morum v1rt'utum 'praeful ornatiisimé Inger... mei laborem admod'um pertenuem, hilari fronte'fufcipito: propedicin met ibra quxpiamfùlituo;itiìlo in pbùlicum cedìta M'ulis benè iuuan abus nobis Valéiterum dò&oruni viro ruin d'ul um met'jue cominendàtum Landishuta, Anno M. D.. XXIII. Vii.slalend.febr.
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