Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum

Edition

D. Martin Luthers Werke, Kritische Gesammtausgabe (Weimar edition), vol. 1, Weimar, Hermann Böhlau, 1883, pp. 233-238, edited by J. K. F. Knaake, whose text follows print A (a single-sheet print in folio ending “M.D.Xvij.”, copy of the British Museum). The text comes from the OCR of the archive.org scan above; every line was read against its page scans and checked against a second copy (archive.org dmartinlutherswe11luth, Getty Research Institute), and 75 OCR errors were corrected. The spelling of the edition is kept (e for ae, Lutther, Hiesu, spiritussanctus, charitas, rhetia). The numbering is that of print A and of the edition, three series of 1 to 25 then 1 to 20; the edition gives the running numbers 1 to 95 only in its page heads, and the poster leaves a space between the series. Left out: running heads and page numbers, the line numbers of the edition, its critical apparatus (variants of prints B and C) and its marginal Bible references (Matth. 4, 17 at thesis 1; Hes. 13, 10. 16 at the 17th of the fourth series; Apgsch. 14, 22 at its 20th). Words divided at line ends are joined. One misprint of the edition, printed in both copies, is corrected: “iudulgentias” (6th thesis of the third series, p. 236) is set as “indulgentias”. The preamble (“Amore et studio...”) and the closing “M.D.Xvij.” are set as in the edition, the preamble across the columns.

Rights

Martin Luther died on 18 February 1546 (Wikidata Q9554). The Weimar edition, vol. 1, was published in 1883; its editor J. K. F. Knaake, who signs the preface (p. XXII), died on 6 April 1905 (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Knaake). The text is in the public domain in France (authors died before 1 January 1956) and in the United States (published before 1931). The archive.org item is marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0.