Thomissøn's hymnal

[1][2] The hymnal's original full title was Den danske Psalmebog, met mange Christelige Psalmer, Ordentlig tilsammenset, formeret oc forbedret.

Aff Hans Thomissøn (The Danish Hymnal, with Many Christian Hymns, Carefully Gathered, Expanded, and Improved.

Hans Thomissøn was the country's leading hymnologist and he translated many of the hymns from German into Danish.

[2] He began his work on the hymnal, which took him twelve years, before he became the parish priest at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen in 1561.

Melodies to accompany Thomissøn's hymnal were printed in 1573 in Niels Jespersen's gradual.