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Text:Jesus is a gem of price
Author:Johann Scheffler (1624-1677)
Translator:George R. Woodward (1848-1934)
Tune:JESUS IST EIN SÜSSER NAM'
Harmonizer:Charles Wood (1866-1926)

384. Jesus is a gem of price

Text Information
First Line: Jesus is a gem of price
German Title: Jesus ist der schönste Nam'
Author: Johann Scheffler (1624-1677)
Translator: George R. Woodward (1848-1934) (1lt.)
Meter: 78.78.77
Language: English
Publication Date: 1983
Topic: St. Gertrude the Great
Source: Trans.: Songs of Syon (1923)
Copyright: Trans. by permission of Schott and Son
Notes: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: JESUS IST EIN SÜSSER NAM'
Harmonizer: Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Meter: 78.78.77
Incipit: 15234 53215 67654
Key: e minor or modal
Source: Munich (1586); Harm.: The Cambridge Carol Book
Copyright: Harm. used by permission of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
Notes: Public Domain



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