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Kriegsmann, Wilhelm Christoph · 1670

which acts as the moderator of all things knowable, compressed into a Compendium. As to how much it is to be esteemed on its own merits, I shall let the Caesars, Popes, Princes, and finally the greatest number of illustrious men—Theologians, Jurists original: "JCti" for Jurisconsulti, Physicians, Philosophers, and Philologists—speak for me, whose studies on this Art already exist. I leave it to those to judge what I have accomplished in newly adorning it, provided they have insight into the hidden recesses of Lull's invention and the laborious commentaries of its interpreters.
I bring these main heads of the art to your Most Serene attention for two primary reasons. First, so that what has been accustomed to be held in esteem among the magnates