Weimar Edition Volumes of Luther’s Works in Google Books
July 12th, 2009
The Wittenberg Listserve posted today a message from Finn Anderson announcing that he has index available of a good number of the Weimar Edition of Martin Luthers Werke that have been put up on Google Books (Weimarer Ausgabe – WA) 1-56 is now on the web as images (PDF-files and Flip-books). It is free, gratis. Google has scanned the books and I have made an index on my website
There are 127 volumes in the entire Weimar Edition set, and a number of the older volumes have been updated since the 1930s, so for detailed scholarly work you would need to check the updated volumes, where they exist.
Thanks to Paul Schaum for passing this news along.
Categories: Luther's Works
You just made my day!
But these don’t seem to be the Google scanned versions – but rather another version posted on archive.org. I have been monitoring Google for a while now, and I can only find about 20 different volumes, of varying quality. These are all fairly consistent, although the contrast could be improved.
But the treasure for me was vol. 26, because I have an ambition to translate the Confession on the Lord’s Supper, and release it Creative Commons. We need a readily available translation that can be freely distributed.
Be still my beating heart. Maybe now when people try and quote Luther, they’ll get it right.
@William Cwirla
Or else, be very confused because the German spelling has changed so much since then:
“Got sey lob und danck durch Jhesum Christ unsern herren ynn ewigkeit…”