Melchior Lotter

Lotter was the last name of a family of German printers, intimately connected with the Reformation.

The founder of the family was Melchior Lotter, the elder, born at Aue, and well-known at Leipzig as early as 1491.

He published missals, breviaries, a Persius (1512), Horatii Epistolæ (1522), and Luther Tessaradecos Consolatoria pro Laborantibus (1520).

His son was also named Melchior (died c. 1542), which has resulted in some bibliographical confusion.

Antiqua et insignis Epistola Nicolai Papa I., ad Michaelem Imperatorem.