Article: Early Lutheran hymnals and other musical sources in the Kessler Reformation collection at Emory University.

Emory University was founded in 1836 by the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (1) It is therefore perhaps not the most likely location for a world-class collection of primary sources from the sixteenth-century German Reformation. During the past few decades, however, several factors have contributed to the development of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection. In 1975, Pitts Theology Library purchased the holdings of the Hartford Theological Seminary--approximately 220,000 volumes, including the Beck Lutherana Collection--and instantly became the second-largest theology library in North America. (2) A dozen years later, in 1987, the Kessler ...

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