Vollständiges Marburger Gesang-Buch
Subtitle: zur Uebung der Gottseligkeit, in 649 christlichen und trostreichen Psalmen und Gesängen Hrn. D. Martin Luthers und anderer gottseliger Lehrer : ordentlich in XII. Theile verfasset, und mit nöthigen Registern auch einer Verzeichniss versehen unter welcher Titul die im Anhang befindliche Lieder gehörig : auch zur Beförderung des so Kirchen- als Privat-Gottesdienstes, mit erbaulichen Morgen- Abend- Buss- Beicht- und Communion-Gebätlein vermehret
Publisher: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Christoph Saur
Published: 1759
Place of publication: Germanton [Pa.]
Language: ger
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Creeds; Hymns; Liturgical works; Lutheran Church
Work titles: Marburger Gesangbuch
Notes: First published in this American version, Germantown, 1757; the first Lutheran hymnbook published in America.

Relief portrait of Martin Luther, with biographical note.  Without music.  Errors in paging: p. 256, 411 misnumbered 156, 412; p. 53, last count, misnumbered 35.  Includes index.  With caption title: "Der kleine Catechismus Lutheri": p. 14.  With this is bound, as issued, with second title page and separate paging, but continuous signatures: "Evangelia und Episteln. Auf alle Sonntage." Germantown, 1760: 94 p.  Bötte & Tannhof state that this second printing of the Marburger Gesangbuch was issued with the "Evangelioa und Episteln" of either 1758 or 1760, and in one case 1762.

Retrospective conversion: original entry.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary leather with brass clasps; lacks relief portrait of Luther.  Ownership names inscribed inside back cover: Johannes Lossing, Nicholas Lossing.  Genealogical data on the Lossing and Emigh families of Dutchess County, New York, inscribed in an early hand on front endpapers and an added leaf.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from the Library Company of Philadelphia, and formerly in the collection of Michael Zinman.