Three quarters of the page before this sermon, f. 59b, has been torn out. This page might have had the title and other information on it. A prayer is included at the end.
Four printings: 1) "Sermon XXXIIII" in Fifty Sermons, Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr in Divinity, Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls London (London, 1649), pp. 304-310; 2) "Number 12: Preached to the Nobility," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 5 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959), pp. 231-244; 3) "Sermon 5: Luke 23:34. Preached to the Nobility [undated, probably fairly early]" in Evelyn M. Simpson, ed., John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations," Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963), pp. 115-128; 4) "Preached to the Nobility," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, vol. 6, ed. Philip West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), p. 35; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (vol. 6)
Precise date and location unknown. The Oxford Edition website puts this sermon in the period between 1619 and the late 1620s when Donne preached many sermons for the gentry and nobility. Further details about the dating of this sermon will appear in Volume 6 of the Oxford Edition when it is published.
Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - full text