ABSTRACT

Begun at the Wartburg in the latter part of 1521, the work was prosecuted with such energy that the New Testament was completed by the time that Luther returned to Wittenberg in March, 1522. I t was published the following September in a handsome quarto with woodcuts from Cranach's workshop,— some of them after Diirer's famous Apocalypse series, — a description of the Holy Land by Melanchthon, marginal explanatory notes and introductions to the whole and to the separate books by Luther.