CHAPTER II.
Descriptive Bibliography.[1]
This descriptive bibliographical list includes only collections of hymns, manuscript and printed. The compiler or author is in every instance a Schwenkfelder. Early German religious prints other than hymn-books not infrequently contained a few hymns; and a number of hymns of Schwenkfelder authorship were first published separately in this manner. But such prints are not included in this list. Likewise, collections which contain Schwenkfelder hymns but are not Schwenkfelder compilations are excluded. The list affords a survey of the activity of the sect in the writing as well as in the collecting and arranging of hymns for devotional use, privately and in their meetings for worship. The numbers in this bibliography marked thus (*) are the collections in folio and quarto which served as sources for the "Saur edition," and include both the original manuscripts and the transcriptions of them which are known to exist. All titles are reproduced in German, with their original orthography. The description of all the numbers in the list is given in English. Those numbers which are not described as "manuscript" are collections which have been issued in print.
I. 1546.
Ein New Lied | Auff Sebastian Coccius | Schulmaisters zu Hall Schmach- | büchlen, die er wider die Herrlichait | Christi hat geschriben. | Im thon | O das ich kiind von hertzen. | Oder | Ich stund an einem morgen. | Raimund Weckher. | 1546.
Octavo. 14 pages. Contains the hymn : Ein vogel ist aussge-flogen. The hymn consists of 31 strophes of 7 lines. It is a polemic in defense of the doctrine of Schwenkfeld. Preceding the hymn is an "Exhortation to the Reader" in rhymed couplets. (Royal Library, Dresden.)
- ↑ Compare : Schneider, loco citato, pp. 12-18. Wackernagel, Vol. I, part II. Koch, Vol. II.
