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Thirty-Five Years of Luther Research

the second edition, he made use of the Table-Talk collection, collected by J. K. Seidemann. Moreover, he had the service especially of Knaake's valuable collection of Luther's printed writings, Luther's first lecture on the Psalms in the time between 1513 and 1516, edited by Seidemann, 1876, in which the maturing of his new theology could be detected, and, if we exclude the less important, Kolde's study of the German Augustinian Congregation.

9 In "Beitraege zur Reformationsgeschichte," dedicated to Koestlin, 1896, Kawerau supplemented this monogravure.

10 Thus for example Kawerau confesses (Theologische Studien und Kritiken, 1908, p. 343): "I am personally indebted to Kolde especially for the fact that, through his preliminary work, my attention was directed to the letters of the reformers that were in the archives at Zerbst. I was enabled, solely through this clue, to collect the letters of Justus Jonas (with which work I had begun) in such great numbers that I could publish them, 1884 and 1885, in two volumes."

11 A part of the Vatican Library; so called because it was originally in the Palatinate (at Heidelberg). After the capture of Heidelberg by Maximilian of Bavaria, 1622, Maximilian made a present of it to Pope Gregory XV. In February, 1623, the papal delegate Leo Allatius sent the manuscripts and a large part of the printed matter to Rome.

12 Concerning this peculiar incident and the ugly features connected with it, for which, however, Ficker is not responsible, we would rather say nothing; cf. "Theologische Literaturzeitung," 1905, column 684.

13 At that time we immediately acquainted the American Lutheran Church with this through a copy of an article by W. Braun in "Kirchliche Zeitschrift," 1909, pp. 471-496. But the trouble is, that most of our English Lutheran theologians do not consider this German magazine worthy of their notice.

14 Meissinger, in "Luther's Exegese in der Fruehzeit," 1911, shows that it can not be absolutely ascertained that Luther gave lectures on the Epistle to Titus, furthermore that it is not beyond doubt whether the lectures on Genesis and I Corinthians, which have been attributed to him, are his; in the same connection,