Luther also asks him to press the Elector for a second visitation in Meissen. He should prevent that D. Jakob [Schenk?] from being employed there again. From a splendid copy of the Bible for the Elector.
3) The Elector wrote to Duke Heinrich according to Luther's wishes (Thursday after Francisci, October 9), from which it follows that, according to the report of the councilors who were negotiating in Dresden and Naumburg, the Duke had already decided to order a second visitation. (Burkhardt.)
Letters from the year 1539. No. 2581. 2582. 2583.
The original is in the archives at Weimar, .Ii, fol. 143d. D. 2. 3. printed in the Leipzig Supplement, p. 87, no. 157; in Walch, vol. XXI, 420; in De Wette, vol. V, p. 205 and in the Erlangen edition, vol. 55, p. 240,
Hans Luft has shown me how the Bible would now be printed on large median paper here, which we want to overrun again, not to make it better, but to correct the printer's mistakes: the Princes of Anhalt have learned this, and want three copies of parchment printed underneath; one copy (for there will be 340 sheets and so many calfskins) will cost 60 fl. Whether M. G. H. also wants to have one or several of these copies of parchment, it would have to be ordered and commanded in time; for when the work is begun, it comes too late; you S. C. F. G. will know how to indicate this, so that we do not have to be punished afterwards for not having indicated it. 1539.
No. 2582.
September 19, 1539.