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_QLAUS PETRI AND HIS WORK. 209
fessor Schiick, it is now believed to be mainly the work of
Glaus. Those to whom such questions are of interest
will do well to study Professor Stave s careful Essay on
the Sources of the New Testament Version of 1526, in
which the character and extent of the debt to Erasmus and
Luther are clearly explained.
17
The Swedish New Testa
ment and the chronicle of Olaus are considered as models
of what Swedish prose ought to be, although the style of
his brother Laurentius is even better. Three other
Swedish publications of the same year, though anonymous,
are thought also to be the work of Olaus.18
Amongst them
was a Psalm-book, or hymn-book, which is unfortunately
no longer in our hands, which contained fifteen hymns,
some translations from Luther and others, and some
originals, of which several are still sung.
19
The one on the
Nativity is full of life.
The following years saw a similar activity, and in these
four years Olaus printed twice as many books as previously
existed in Swedish. These included the first catechism,
a free adaptation of Luther s greater catechism, useful
"
postils
"
or explanations of the Gospels for the use of the
less learned clergy, the hand-book, or ritual, and the
Swedish mass. The last two require special mention, and
we must be grateful to Dr. Oscar Quensel for making them
more easily accessible in his scholarly edition.20
The hand-book is not only the first collection of the
ritual services in Swedish, but it is the first book of the
17
Om kdllorna till 152*6 drs ofversdttning af Nya Testa-
mentet, af Erik Stave, Upsala, 1893.
18
See H. Schiick : Olavus Petri, p. 50, who puts the Psalm-
bok in 1526.
19
Cornelius :
Hist., p. 45, assigns this book to the year 1530.
He refers to three hymns: (i) O Fader vdr barmhertig, god;
(2) O Jesu Krist, som mandom tog ; (3) En jungfru fodde ett
barn i dag as being still in use. Probably the whole number
were reprinted in 1536, in the first Swedish hymn-book that is
still in existence. It was reprinted in 1862.
Bidrag till Svenska Liturgiens Historia, 2 parts, Upsala,
1890. This also contains King John s missal and much other
illustrative material.
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