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cum Cracoviae ... qua veniebat ---> is the preposition ex missing because this is movement away from a city?

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dicere non habemus .... I fully well know that's a mediaevalism, but is this construction fairly equivalent to dicere non possumus/nequimus?
 

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cum Cracoviae ... qua veniebat ---> is the preposition ex missing because this is movement away from a city?
Preps are typically omitted before city names, but not before pronouns referring to cities.
In any case, even if an ex had been dropped it would be rather odd for the pronoun to refer to the city while et in itinere comes in between. It's more likely qua (via).
dicere non habemus .... I fully well know that's a mediaevalism, but is this construction fairly equivalent to dicere non possumus/nequimus?
Yes. The OLD actually has a few classical quotes for that usage.
 
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dicere non habemus .... I fully well know that's a mediaevalism, but is this construction fairly equivalent to dicere non possumus/nequimus?
Isn't more like "we don't have anything to say" instead of "we can't say anything".
 
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Simply "we can't say" without the word "anything" is much better.
 
 

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Simply "we can't say" without the word "anything" is much better.
I like that, as it would be more literal, but thanks to Pacifica for the OLD excerpt. It's clear now.
 
 

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One more, towards the end of the chapter, that I forgot to mention:

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Surely that should have been gignendo?
Btw I love how they used to end epistles and chapters with such elegant formatting. What sucks is that the text is one long chunk without any paragraph indentations etc. But at least there are notes in the margins that let the reader know what a given passage is about.
 

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Would that be easier to read?
 
 

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Yet I was under the impression that this XVIth c. type is clear and legible enough...
 
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