Sermon on Proverbs 8:17

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 7115
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-7540)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Proverbs 8:17 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 116r-122r
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Proverbs 8:17 - 8:17
Associated Sermons
Preachings
1617-12-14 (old) - Somerset House - Occasion not identified No place or date is given in the manuscript, but they are identified in printed versions. The place is identified as "Denmarke-house," the name of Somerset House during the reign of James I.
Print Editions / Witnesses

Three printings: 1) "A Sermon Preached to Queen Anne, at Denmarke-house. December. 14. 1617. Sermon XVIII," 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. 257-269; 2) "Number 5. A Sermon Preached to Queen Anne, at Denmarke-house. December. 14. 1617," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), pp. 236-251; 3) "Sermon 4: A Sermon Preached to Queen Anne, at Denmarke-House. December. 14. 1617," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne," vol. 1, ed. Peter McCullough (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 42-58.

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. 36

Other Note

Manuscript witnesses of this sermon are discoverable in British Library, Harley MS 6946 and the 'Ellesmere' Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469).

Digitized Copy

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - Diplomatic transcription

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-i4-prov-817-0 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Emma Rhatigan.
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
September 1, 2024