Habermann, John; Neuman, Caspar. The Christian's Companion: containing Morning and Evening Prayers for every Day in the Week, by Dr. John Habermann. Also, Dr. Neuman's Prayer of Prayers, and a collection of Morning and Evening Hymns. Harrisburg: Theo. F. Scheffer, 1856. [10179]
Red leather spine with marbled paper over card, dark, scuffed, with good joints, tight, 12 x 8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches). Top corner of ffep torn with loss, wood engraving of a man praying at his bedside. 144 pp., complete, some staining & foxing in the text. Fair. Hardcover.
Sometime translated from the German, unattributed translator. The Hymn section is 24 selections, words only.
Johann Habermann (1516-1590), German Lutheran pastor and theologian. This prayer book was first published in 1565, with the title Christliche Gebet für alle Not und Stende der gantzen Christenheit. It was widely used and translated into several languages.
With a signed provenance card from the music collection of A. Merril Smoak, Jr., DWS.
