Sermon on Hosea 2:19

GEMMS ID
GEMMS-SERMON-7545
GEMMS-SERMON2-7120
Sermon Title
Sermon on Hosea 2:19 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 150r-155v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Genre
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Hosea 2:19 - 2:19
Preachings
1621-05-30 (old) - St Clement Danes - Marriage No date is given in the text, but it is identified as 30 May 1621 on the Oxford Edition website.
Print Editions / Witnesses

Four printings: 1) The third sermon in Six Sermons upon Severall Occasions, Preached before the King, and Elsewhere: by the Late Learned & Reverend Divine John Donne, Doctour in Divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London (London, 1634), pp. 1-24; 2) "Sermon III. Preached at a Mariage," 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. 15-22; 3) "Number 11: Preached at the Mariage [the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington at the church of St. Clement Danes, May 30, 1621," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 3 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 241-255; 4) "Preached at a Mariage [the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington at the church of St. Clement Danes, May 30, 1621]," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, vol. 7, ed. Erica Longfellow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Description

At the end is written, "Finis of a Sermon preach'd at St Clements danes by D: Dunn at Mr Washingtons marriage." The Oxford Edition website notes that this refers to Mistress Margaret Washingon.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953), p. 36; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne web page (see link below).

Other Note

Another manuscript copy is found in the St. Paul's manuscript, also known as the 'Chetwode MS' (St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14). See Potter and Simpson, vol. 1, p. 36. Other manuscript witnesses are the 'Ellesmere' manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469) and British Library, Harley MS 6946. Diplomatic transcriptions of these manuscripts are available at the 'Sermons in Manuscript' page on the OESJD website (link below).

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/volume-vii-sermons-preached-marriages-christen… Information about Erica Longfellow, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume VII: Sermons Preached at Marriages, Christenings, and Churchings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-vii2-hos-219-0#tab-419896 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Emma Rhatigan.
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/sermons-manuscript 'Sermons in Manuscript', OESJD.
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024