In Germany there was Martin Luther`s Bible
Baku, February 19 (AZERTAC). Completely gone in far 1945 Biblija Lukasa Kranaha, was and will be soon exposed on a general review in Germany. Experts have confirmed authenticity of a relic in which creation Martin Luther has taken a hand. However where the ancient volume has spent the last half a century and where it have found out, is stored in strict secret.
One of these days in the main ground archive in Dessau-Rosslau have shown Bibliju Lukasa Kranaha found out not so long ago. It is a question of the first of three volumes of the edition of 1541, completely gone of Anhaltsky ground library in 1945. Thus, a unique three-volume edition again with its full complement: the second volume which also has disappeared in the end of the Second World War, it was possible to find in 1996, informs Sedmitsa.ru referring to CNLNEWS.tv.
According to the minister of culture of a federal land Saxony-Anhalt Brigitty Volf, the first that Biblii Lukasa Kranaha has been found out seven months ago. Where the book has spent last decades and how has emerged on a surface while it is kept a secret. Meanwhile German journalists assume that the volume for the six-place sum at last owner has redeemed Cultural fund of Germany.
Experts have already confirmed authenticity of a find. "Feature of this Bible that it is printed on parchment and is colourfully illustrated, - book restorer Henrik Otto tells. - In it personal marks of reformers Martin Luther, Phillip Melanhtona, Johann Bugenhagena and Kaspara Krutsigera invited by George III, prince Angalt-Dessau" contain.
The book Status leaves much to be desired. Wooden engravings of Kranaha look as brightly, as well as 470 years ago, but the volume has lost metal locks and at any moment can be deformed. Fortunately, to the Bible it is already possible to add one page which remained in storehouse after disappearance. The site of one more sheet is still not known.
Prince George III Anhaltsky (1507-1553), ardent supporter Reformatsii, has enjoined to divide in due time own two-volume Bible in Martin Luther`s transfer into three parts. The book have printed on parchment in Hans Ljuffta`s printing house in Wittenberg in 1541. In total 500 pages of the first volume contain about 60 engravings on a tree of work of Lukasa of the Kranaha-senior.
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