Sermon on Luke 23:34

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 7102
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-7527)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Luke 23:34 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 60r-65r
Autograph
Composition Date
ca. 1619 - 1629
Primary Language
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Luke 23:34 - 23:34
Preachings
Additional Material

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.

Print Editions / Witnesses

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).

Source of Data

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)

Other Note

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.

Digitized Copy

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - full text

URLs
http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-6 Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (Volume 6)
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
September 1, 2024