[1670] Cp. our vol. iii., pp. 78 ff., 91 f.
[1671] “Werke,” ib., p. 196 f.
[1672] This he said, according to Wanckel’s Notes in the Wittenberg copy of the caricatures; cp. C. Wendeler, “Archiv f. Literaturgesch.,” 14, 1, 1886, p. 18: “Et sint meum testamentum.” From “Unschuldige Nachrichten,” 1712, p. 951.
[1673] May 8, 1545, “Briefe,” 5, p. 740: “De tribus furiis nihil habebam in animo, cum eas papæ appingerem, nisi ut atrocitatem abominationis papalis atrocissimis verbis in lingua latina exprimerem.” The word “appingere,” of course, merely means that he suggested the scene. See below, p. 427 f.
[1674] Cp. P. Lehfeldt, “Luthers Verhältnis zu Kunst und Künstlern,” Berlin, 1892. This writer says, p. 71: “Unfortunately our knowledge of Cranach compels us to say that the pictures, as they have come down to us, cannot be regarded as Cranach’s work,” etc. See allusion below to “Master Lucas,” p. 429.
[1675] Copies of the set of pictures with nine, or ten, woodcuts are to be found in the Marienbibliothek at Halle, in the Lutherhalle at Wittenberg and in the Lutherbibliothek at Worms. No. 562* f. 28 in the British Museum with fourteen pictures is a made-up copy, four cuts of which are not uniform with the rest of the set. [Note of the English Editor.]
[1676] Cp. Köstlin, “M. Luther”², p. 614. In the 5th edition the passage is worded otherwise.
[1677] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 26², p. 175.
[1678] The picture in Denifle-Weiss, p. 840.
[1679] “Martin Luther”², p. 614, without the verse. The 5th ed., 2, p. 602, again runs differently.