152t.
Grace and peace to all who see or hear this letter. And be it known that this Johann Aureus and Katharina Dittmarin have married according to divine right and have confessed such marriage before the witnesses named below, namely: Martinus Luther, D., Magister Johannes Schnitter of Eisleben, Andreas Krappe, Baccalaureus Juris, and Jakob Präpositus, Licentiate of Holy Scripture, and Eberhard Breisger, Prior of the Augustinian Monastery at Wittenberg.
That she desires a testimony and handwriting from me, Martin Luther, as I then should not have refused such, and bear witness to all this with my handwriting. Please, therefore, all those to whom God's Word is dear, be favorable and supportive to these two in such and other necessary matters. Christ will reward them abundantly, Amen. At Wittenberg in 1524.
Martinus Luther, manu propria.