Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 7101
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-7526)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 53r-59av
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Genre
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Ecclesiastes 12:1 - 12:1
Preachings
1619-04-18 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Farewell Only the year is given in the manuscript, but the date is identified as April 18 in the printed versions.
Print Editions / Witnesses

Five printings: 1) "Mans Timely Remembring of His Creator; or an Exposition Delivered in a Sermon upon Eccles. 12. 1.," in William Milbourne, Sapientia Clamitans, Wisdome Crying Out to Sinners to Returne from Their Evill Wayes (London, 1638), pp. 253-319 (pirated copy; Donne is not named); 2) "Sermon XIX: A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincolns-Inne, April 18. 1619," in XXVI Sermons Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London (London, 1660/1), pp. 269-281; 3) Evelyn Mary Simpson, ed., Donne's Sermon of Valediction at His Going into Germany Preached at Lincoln's Inn April 18, 1619, Printed from the Original in the Lothian and Ashmole Manuscripts and from XXVI Sermons (London: Nonesuch, 1932); 4) "Number 11: A Sermon of Valediction at My Going into Germany, at Lincolns-Inne, April 18. 1619," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. II (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955), pp. 235-249; 5) "A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln’s Inn," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Vol. IV, ed. Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Description

Identified at the beginning as "Do Donns Farewell Sermon preach'd at Lincolnes Inne when he went to the K: of Bohemie 1619."

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. I (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), p. 35

Other Note

Other manuscript copies appear in the Dowden, Lothian, Dobell, and Ashmole manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson, Vol. I, p. 35), in addition to British Library, Harley MS 6356, which was discovered by Jeanne Shami.

Digitized Copy

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - diplomatic transcription

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-iv10-eccles-121-1#tab-419686 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Emma Rhatigan.
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
September 1, 2024