I found this short summary of the Institutes that some might find interesting. It has a little history at the beginning.
A Short Summary of Calvin's Institutes - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon
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  2. Shalom NB.Mick! Since you are an ESL person you could add another set of "training wheels" by making a Lay-out with the Battles' translation and a PB of the German translation by Otto Weber next to each other. I have done likewise.

  3. Thanks for the idea, H.J.! This could be a nice addition for the growing group of German-speaking Logos users - in fact years ago Theolobias even mentioned Weber's translation in a forum thread. I personally have no idea where to obtain any German translation of the institutes in electronic version at all. It seems Weber's version is only to be found in a very expensive hardcopy - even on a site claiming eBook in its title - and in one place as picture-scans in blackletter font. I'm not even sure if I should ask you to share the PB source, since despite being published in the 1930s it's probably still under copyright (if 70 years PMA applies, Weber living until 1966).

  4. Shalom NB.Mick! About a year ago I found an (untagged) Word document on the internet, but after reading your post I very much doubt the translation is in the public domain. Perhaps we should take this discussion to the German Faithlife group. Or you could send me an email at hj[dot]van[punkt]der[dot]wal[at]wxs[punkt]nl