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PREFACE

TO THE NEW EDITION

OF THESE ANNALS

books? And indeed, I pray, let it be permitted for them to be YOURS; for they contain every benefit bestowed by YOUR Ancestors—born, as they were, of that same Wittelsbach blood The House of Wittelsbach was the long-ruling dynasty of Bavaria and the Palatinate as YOU—for the advancement of the finest sciences within this seat of the Muses original: "Musarum sedem," a classical way of referring to a university as a home for the arts and learning. They record everything that has been illustriously achieved in the realm of scholarship by the students of this Academy The University of Ingolstadt, whether they were native-born or from abroad, throughout three continuous centuries.

Permit then, Most Serene CHARLES THEODORE, that your most sacred name, which shall always be held in reverence by the Muses, shine forth upon the very front of these Annals. From this, a new splendor will be added to YOUR University; and to this