Hernach folgen Gesanng, Wie | sich ein mensch in Verlichner gnad Christi auf sein Zukonnfft berai- | ten mechte.
This part of the collection contains chiefly hymns on the Second Coming of Christ. The orthography of this manuscript seems to point to Strassburg. It contains a total of 175 hymns. Of these, 44 are unquestionably, and 10 others possibly, by Adam Reissner. All the hymns of this collection are presumably of Schwenkfelder authorship.[1] (Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbiittel.)
VII. 1596.
A : PRVDENTII DIVRNAL. | Täglichs Gsangbuch | welches Prudentius vor Tausend Jaren | beschrieben, Auss dem Latein | verteiitscht. | durch, | A: Reiszner. | Durch | Daniel Sudermann. | Anno 1596, I zu Strassburg geschrieben, | vnnd gemehret.
Manuscript in folio. 572 pages. In this collection and in the collection which we have just described, most of the hymns by Adam Reissner have been preserved. This manuscript, like the preceding, contains hymns by various Schwenkfelder writers in addition to those by Reissner. The compiler of this collection was the distinguished Schwenkfelder and prolific hymn-writer Daniel Sudermann, in whose hand the entire manuscript is neatly engrossed. The first division of the volume embraces those translations of the Latin hymns of Prudentius contained in the preceding number, here re-arranged. Then a new title-page, as follows:
PROVDENTII ENCHIRIDION. | Eua Columba fuit, turn Candida nigra deinde. | Kleine Bibel. | Namen vnnd wunderge-schichten dess Alten | vnnd Newen Testaments.
This part of the collection comprises a translation of the Enchiridion, or handbook of devotions, of Aurelius Prudentius. It is the enlargement indicated on the title-page of the book. Who translated these Latin hymns, we are not told. Again a new title, as follows:
Gsangbuch | Newer geistlicher Lieder | Zum erkantnus des Heilmachers Jhesu | Christi, vnd Jederman Zur besserung dienstlich. | Auch | Darin die gmeine Irrthumb vnd | abgötterey der Welt entdeckt | werden.
- ↑ Cf. Wackernagel, loco citato, Vol. I, p. 591.
