February 2010 We may call Peter Way comforted one possessed. For more than ten years, gives him his find no rest. Hundreds
of red ink in gothic cursive written commentaries, the doctor of
philology, which dominates in addition to Latin and Greek as well as
classical Chinese, of course, deciphered. Words, which reports no reference course, he has identified with the help of modern databases. Meticulously, he has encountered countless sources. Halfway around the world, he has traveled. Dozens of theologians, historians and book experts he consulted. And renowned experts have confirmed him in his opinion: "The books have come from the inner circle, led by Martin Luther. I think they are unique documents of the early history of the Reformation. Not excluded that they are preparing for the Wittenberg Edition of the Works of Aurelius Augustine. "
Ways thesis may sound bold, but she has amazing things for themselves. Discovered, the Americans living in Paris, the "Opera Omnia" of the sacred and the Reformers church father in 1998. These are the famous and in Basel with Peter Froben printed "editio princeps" of Erasmus. She has ten volumes, dated from 1527 to 1529. Generally it is considered the first complete edition of Augustine. In a bookseller of the French capital she had been offered. Not
even with a price they were provided when she saw Peter Way, and
immediately bought: "I knew that I had a truffled copy before me."
Spread over about 15,000 pages in folio format had numerous text
corrections, references and Bible references and nearly 400 more marginal notes of up to 3000 words in length. With
the practiced eye of knowledgeable bibliophiles Way saw immediately
that the meticulous writing of the author most likely came from the
hand of one and the same person - a clear indication that this was not
done out of pleasure someone notes, but a knowledgeable scholar, a
meticulously task was investigated, which must have cost him years of his life.
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