There is another edition of Luther's hymnal from the year 1525, which is different from the two others I mentioned earlier. It is commemorated by Seckendorf in the Index III. Hist. Lutherani." under the year 1525, num. 56, and Hermann von der Hardt in "Autographa Lutheri", tom. I., p. 215. It has the same title as the one mentioned and printed at Erfurt in 1525; only that it is not called: "Geistliche Gesänge", but: "Enchiridion geistlicher Gesänge", and since it was also published at Wittenberg in 1525 in octavo, one would think that it is the same hymnal with that one. But if one holds them against each other, then such a difference shows up that in the one, whose Seckendorf remembers, the songs not only follow each other in a different order, but are also more of them. In 1528, a new hymnal in octavo was printed in Wittenberg, of which the aforementioned Olearius, in a sheet printed in 1720 under the title: "Enchiridion geistlicher Gesänge" ("Enchantment of Spiritual Songs"), gives notice and reports that there are many songs in it which have been forgotten again. See the "Fortgesetzte Sammlung von alten und neuen theologischen Sachen", 1720, p. 97. The following year, 1529, Luther published his songs in an expanded and special form, and added a new preface in addition to the old one. In the preface, Luther complains that the songs are multiplied without distinction, as is good for everyone, and that the first songs are printed more and more incorrectly. He therefore again overlooked this booklet and added the names to the songs so that none would be added to it that he had not made; he also asked that such a booklet not be improved or increased in the future without his knowledge and will. The first printing of Luther's hymnal, which took place in 1529, must be very rare. It is found neither in von der Hardt's, nor in Olearius' ,,Autographa Lu-.
theri", and the latter confesses in the preface of the cited "Jubilirenden Lieder-Freude" that he had never seen him before. [It seems that this edition, increased and improved by Luther and provided with a new preface, was erroneously set in the year 1529, since this edition is rather that of 1533, which Walch does not seem to know at all. Also, this edition of 1533 has just the preface that Walch gives to the edition of 1543 (1544?), and therefore its content, which was added by Walch to the edition of 1543, has been moved to this place in this revised edition]. This is the edition that was subsequently added to the German collections of Luther's writings, as the Jenaische (Thl. VIII, p. 491), Altenburgische (Thl. VÜI, p. 570). Since a Latin passage from a letter, which Luther wrote to Nicolaus Hausmann and therein thought something of the German Litany, was printed here on the margin and the same was also retained in the Leipzig and these parts, without any indication of when this letter was written and where it is to be found, I remind you that it was written on March 13, 1529 and is in the "Supplementum epistolarum Lutheri", published by Dr. Buddeus, p. 60. In the Leipzig collection, Luther's songs are found in the 22nd part, p. 282. The edition named is also included in this new (Walch's) collection, in which printing the two previously recensored Wittenberg and Erfurt editions of 1525 were compared, and because one found one more verse in the song: "Ach GOtt vom Himmel sieh darein", there, it was also added.