zugebrauchen : | Gotte damit zu loben, sich selbst zu ermahnen und zu unterweisen, zu seiner selbst Erbauung im Christen- | thum, und in reiner freyer Libe zu iiben, bisz Gott was bessers, und mehr Gnad | und Freyheit gibet, ihm im Geist und Wahrheit zudinen. | ANNO MDCCIX. | Und an izt nochmahlen auffs neu mit mehr geistreichen Gesängen vermehret und ver- | grössert, wi in der Yorrede, im fünfften Artikkel und folgends zusehen, und in Vier Abthei- | lungen zu Sonntaglicher Ubung geordnet und eingetheilet, | Abgeschriben und vollendet, im Jahr Christi MDCCXXXIII.
Manuscript. Transverse quarto. The hymns comprise 761 pages of illuminative writing, "Frakturschrift" neatly executed. Each page has two columns. Individual lines of the strophes not separated. The title-page is well preserved. Passages of Scripture fill three-fourths of the reverse of the title-page. The text of the title as far as "ANNO MDCCIX" is presumably the title of the collection of that year. Four leaves are missing from the preface, which consisted of eleven leaves. It embodies the preface of the collection of 1709. There is an index of first lines, an index of '"Psalmlieder," and a third index which lists the hymns by authors. The present manuscript and the next number in our list together comprise the collection compiled by Rev. George Weiss. A later chapter is devoted to an account of the sources, the content and the arrangement of this collection. The present volume is the property of Rev. O. S. Kriebel, D.D., Principal of Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
XXVI* 1734.
Der andere Theil Dises | Christlichen | Gesang-Buchs, | von I Pfingsten bisz zu En- | de des Jahres. | Yollendet im Jahr | nach | Christi Geburt | MDCCXXXIY.
Manuscript. Transverse quarto. The hymns comprise 863 pages of the same hand-writing as that of the volume just described. The writing is illuminative. This manuscript is well preserved throughout. It is the companion of number XXY. Both volumes are bound in stamped leather and have clasps and metallic mounts and corners. This volume contains hymns for the Sundays, holy-days and Saints' Days between Whitsuntide and Advent. There are three indexes, as in the case of the companion volume. (Library of Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut.)
