Sermon on Hosea 2:19

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 18500
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-19226)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Hosea 2:19 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 23r-34v
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 The date is not specified in this manuscript.
Print Editions / Witnesses

This sermon was published as the third sermon in John Donne, Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634) and again in John Donne, Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), where it is also no. 3. In the 1634 edition, there is no reference to its original context. Another print witness is George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 241-255. In addition, it will be published as the second sermon in 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).

Description

According to Erica Longfellow, Donne was most likely invited to preach at the marriage of Margaret Washington by her mistress Lady Doncaster, who had negotiated the match. For an analysis of this sermon, see George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 19-26.

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

Written in a small, upright and clear secretary hand with some italic forms. Manuscript witnesses of this sermon are discoverable in the 'Merton' Manuscript (Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71), 'Ellesmere' Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469), and St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14 (a.k.a. 'Chetwode' MS).

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-vii1-gen-218#tab-419566 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Jeanne Shami.
GEMMS record created
February 15, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024