Sermon on Proverbs 8:17

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 18498
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-19224)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Proverbs 8:17
Extent
ff. 1r-11r
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 provided in the manuscript.
Print Editions / Witnesses

John Donne, Sermon no. 18 in XXVI. Sermons (London, 1661), pp. 257-269; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953-1962), I, pp. 236-251; Peter McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-1619 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 43-58.

Description

This sermon was preached in the late morning at court, two days after the forty-third birthday of Queen Anne of Denmark. See Potter and Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, I, pp. 134-138; McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I, pp. 185-87. Manuscript witnesses of the sermon are discoverable in the 'Merton' Manuscript (Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71) and the 'Ellesmere' Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469).

Source of Data

Peter McCullough, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume I: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1615-1619 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); Hannah Yip.

Other Note

Written in a small, slanted secretary hand with italic forms.

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-i4-prov-817#tab-419551 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Jeanne Shami.
GEMMS record created
February 15, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024