The library of the Evangelical Ministry in Erfurt’s Augustinian monastery has put online a collection of around 500-year-old prints of writings by the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546).
The Augustinian monastery in Erfurt announced on Tuesday that the texts from the early days of the Reformation had been digitized by the Gotha Research Library. In future, the texts of scientists could be used worldwide on screens for research.
The 41 writings from the years 1518 to 1523 include works such as “To the Christian nobility of the German nation” or “The tauff buchlin Germanized by Mart. Luther”. A total of eleven of the writings collected in the volume are first editions.
Almost half of them come from the two Erfurt printing works of Matthes Maler and Wolfgang Stürmer. The Erfurt bookbinder Georg Kirsten (1576-1627) probably created the Renaissance binding.
It is unclear who originally collected the prints. The underlining and annotations in the volume are therefore presumably the work of the collector. One of the previous owners was Johann Melchior Möller (1760-1824), who was a deacon at the Regelkirche. In 1786 he donated the book to the library of the Evangelical Ministry.
The book has suffered greatly in the library as a result of centuries of use. Leaves had come loose, water damage had left stains, it said. The book was restored in 2021. In order to protect it in the future, it can now be called up and leafed through online with its 850 pages. (epd)
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Source: Tagesspiegel
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