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Rh Psalmen or Psalm-Lieder, namely, metrical versions of the 150 Psalms; by Cornelius Becker, Adam Reissner, Martin John and others; (2) the so-called Biblische Geschichte, namely, a summary, in verse, of the more significant events of Biblical history, most of the hymns of this series having been written by Adam Reissner; (3) the Evangeliums-Gesänge, to wit, the metrical versions of the gospel lessons, by George Weiss; and (4) a miscellany, constituting the remainder of the compilation, and composed of 518 hymns taken from numerous Schwenkfelder, Moravian, Lutheran and Reformed hymn-writers. Following is a complete list of the writers of these miscellaneous hymns, together with the number of hymns each has contributed. In this table we include also a register of the initials of these authors, as they appear written beside the hymns in the manu- script folio volume of the year 1758, in the folio volume by the Rev. Christopher Hoffmann (1760), and in a limited number of copies of the Saur edition: