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master, so that for other merited honors, by this reason a wider entrance is made for them. Before, however, such people are admitted to a public and solemn act, in which the highest dignity is wont to be conferred upon them, according to the tenor of the statutes of illustrious Academies, they are compelled not only to submit themselves to the private judgment and examination of the most famous Jurists, but it is also necessary that they provide some public specimen of their erudition through some brief disputation. Since, therefore, the task of publicly disputing for the obtaining of the degree of Doctorate in both Laws was recently demanded of me by the authority and decree of the most ample college of the Juridical faculty in the most famous Academy of Basel, among other articles of Law I chose to select this matter concerning Dotibus Dowries, as it is very fruitful and daily. I wanted to commit these theses concerning Dowries to your protection, my most beloved Christopher: both to leave them as public witnesses of my perpetual goodwill towards you, and because you seem to claim them from me by a certain right of your own, as you are endowed with excellent gifts of mind and body.
Farewell. Given at Basel of the Rauraci, July 6, in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1581.

Your most dedicated,
Philipp Waimer
of Danzig