Das Kleine Davidische Psalterspiel der Kinder Zions : von alten und neuen Auserlesenen Geistes Gesänge, allen wahren Heils-begierigen Säuglingen der Weisheit, insonderheit aber denen Gemeinden des Herrn, zum Dienst und Gebrauch mit Fleiss zusammen getragen in gegenwärtig-beliebiger Form und Ordnung. Nebst einem dreyfachen, darzu nützlichen und der Materien halben nöthigen Register.

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Imprint:Ephrata : In der Neuen Buchdruckerey, bey Salomon Mäyer, 1795.
Description:1 p. leaves, [4], 575, [23] p. ; 18 cm.
Language:German
Subject:Inspirationists -- Hymns.
Hymns, German -- United States.
Hymns, German.
Inspirationists.
United States.
Hymnals.
Hymns.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8136890
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Other uniform titles:Bible. Psalms. German. 1795.
Notes:Signatures: A-3D6, Eee2.
Two columns to the page.
Without music, tunes indicated by title.
"Anhang einiger Psalmen Davids": p. 509-520.
Error in paging: p. 311 misnumbered 211.
"The larger Psalterspiel of which the second edition appeared, 1729, in Schaffhausen, contained 1047 hymns on 849 pages. Of these a selection was published as the small Psalterspiel, mainly for the use of the 'Inspired' ... The American reprint became quite popular with some sects, Dunkers, Mennonites, etc., as is evidenced by the numerous editions of the book (1744, 1760, 1764, 1777, 1781, 1795, 1797, 1813, 1829)"--Seidensticker, The first century of German printing in America, 1728-1830, Philadelphia, 1893, p. 23.
Evans 28283
Bötte & Tannhof. German printing 972
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