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HYMNBOOK -- Enchiridion oder eyn Handbuchlein. Erfurt: zum Schwartzen Hornn bey der Kremer druken, 1524 [but, Erfurt: Gerhardt & Schreiber for Karl Reinthaler, 1848]. 8° (180 x 130mm). Lithographic facsimile. (Title lightly browned and dust-soiled, uncut edges lightly frayed and chipped with associated light dust-soiling, first gathering loose.) Later 19th-century marbled-paper wrappers, uncut (worn and dog-eared, front cover detached). Provenance: Community of the Resurrection (stamp to verso of upper wrapper).
EARLIEST SURVIVING EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT GERMAN PROTESTANT CHORALE, with 25 poems and 16 melodies. It was probably compiled by Luther's friend Justus Jonas, and was apparently issued simultaneously in Erfurt by Trutebul at the Färbefass press, and in Kremer's imprimerie of the Schwartzen Hornn. Only the Trutebul issue survives, with three copies at Karlsruhe, Leipzig and Berlin, with possibly a fourth at Strasbourg. The sole surviving copy of the Kremer issue was reproduced in the present facsimile of 1848; the original was destroyed by fire in 1870 in the bombardment of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War. ONE OF 'THE EARLIEST SOURCES OF PROTESTANT CHORALES' (Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.158).
EARLIEST SURVIVING EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT GERMAN PROTESTANT CHORALE, with 25 poems and 16 melodies. It was probably compiled by Luther's friend Justus Jonas, and was apparently issued simultaneously in Erfurt by Trutebul at the Färbefass press, and in Kremer's imprimerie of the Schwartzen Hornn. Only the Trutebul issue survives, with three copies at Karlsruhe, Leipzig and Berlin, with possibly a fourth at Strasbourg. The sole surviving copy of the Kremer issue was reproduced in the present facsimile of 1848; the original was destroyed by fire in 1870 in the bombardment of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War. ONE OF 'THE EARLIEST SOURCES OF PROTESTANT CHORALES' (Harvard Dictionary of Music, p.158).