CORNELL GETS OLD BIBLES 
Acquisition Includes Kai‘6 Items 
on Pennsylvania Germans 
Special to The Nbw York Times. 
ITHACA, N. Y.. June 23— Rare 
Pennsylvania German Bibles and 
prayer books, printed in colonial 
times, have been acquired by the 
Cornell University Library in a 
4,000-peice collection on German- 
American culture. 
The items were gathered by Dr. 
A. B. Faust, professor emeritus of 
German at Cornell, who died in 
January. Dr. Faust used the mate- 
rial for his book, “The German Ele- 
ment in the United States,” pub- 
lished in 1909. He taught at Cor- 
nell from 1905 until his retirement 
in 1938. 
Among the Pennsylvania German 
items are three editions of Christo- 
pher Sower's German Bibles, re- 
putedly the first Bibles printed in 
America in a European language. 
■The acquisition also includes mate- 
rial on Goethe and Heine and the 
German Novelle and naturalistic 
drama. 
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