A sermon preached at the Spittell one mundaye in Easter week Aprilis 8 1588. By Mr Doct: Bisse

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 11892
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-12471)
Sermon Title
A sermon preached at the Spittell one mundaye in Easter week Aprilis 8 1588. By Mr Doct: Bisse
Extent
ff. 17r-34r
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Genre
Bible Text
Matthew 13:27 - 13:30
Preachings
1588-04-08 (old) - St Mary - Easter Monday
Print Editions / Witnesses

In February 1588, the City's Recorder was ordered by the Aldermen to write to "Master Doctor Bisse, Master Doctor Powell, and Master Andrewes of Cambridge" to "intreate them from this Cyttye to take paynes to preach at St Marye Spyttle on the Mundaye Tewesday and Wednesdaye in the Easter week" (Corporation of London Record Office, Rep. 21 p. 527).

Peter McCullough, ed., Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 304-305 and pp. 462-463.

Description

Bisse chooses as his text Matthew 13:27-30, the parable of the tares. There are very few marginal notes, but see fol. 29v, which cites an 'Easter fall sermon' by Thomas Holland. This was the 'Rehearsal Sermon' preached on Low Sunday, 1588, of which no manuscript/print witness survives. This sermon is written in a fair secretary hand, with italic script used for most patristic and biblical quotations. The scribal corrections are incidental copying errors as opposed to substantive emendations to the text. McCullough also suggests that the texts derive from transcripts of sermons. See McCullough, 2005, pp. 304, 462.

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

Preacher uncertain. Although the MS has not provided Bisse's forename, it is conjectured by Peter McCullough that the preacher was Philip Bisse (see McCullough, 2005, p. 463).

 

GEMMS record created
July 5, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
March 20, 2025