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TESTIMONY COLLECTED IN, HOLLAND.
DOCUMENT 256.
TESTIMONY OF JOHN CHRISTIAN CUNO.212
(DAVID PAULUS AB INDAGINE.)
INTRODUCTION.
This important testimony is contained in one of the four
folio MS. volumes which are preserved in the State Library
of Brussels under the title: Joh. Christian Cuno’s eigenhändige
Lebensbeschreibung (John Christian Cuno’s Autobiography) .
The portion concerning Swedenborg was copied from these
volumes by Dr. Aug. Scheler, the royal librarian in Brussels,
and published in an octavo volume of 172 pages under the
following title: Aufzeichnungen eines Amsterdamer Bürgers über
Swedenborg (
Notes of an Amsterdam citizen on Swedenborg),
Hanover, 1858. From this volume the translation of the
greater part of what follows has been prepared.
Dr. Scheler gives the following account of the original
MS. volumes : "Not very long ago one of my literary friends
in this place submitted for my examination four staunch folio
volumes bound in morocco which he had bought from a dealer
in second-hand goods for upwards of six Prussian thalers.
These volumes bore on their backs in letters of gold the
above inscription. After turning over a few leaves I dis
covered that I had before me about four thousand pages of
the MS. autobiography of a man who, although resident in
Holland, occupied a by no means enviable position in the
history of German literature as the author of a ’Messiad’ in
twelve cantos (Amsterdam, 1762), and also of many poems,
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