Docto[r] Dunne's Se[r]mon farewell the Lo. of Bridgwaters sermo[n]

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 22238
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-23112)
Sermon Title
Docto[r] Dunne's Se[r]mon farewell the Lo. of Bridgwaters sermo[n]
Extent
f. 45r-v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Genre
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Ecclesiastes 12:1 - 12:1
Preachings
1619-04-18 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Farewell This date is identified in a print witness of the sermon (XXVI Sermons, 1661).
Print Editions / Witnesses

This sermon was first printed as a pirated copy entitled 'Mans Timely Remembring of His Creator' in William Milbourne, Sapientia Clamitans (London, 1638), pp. 251-319. Other print witnesses are John Donne, 'A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincolns-Inne, April. 18. 1619', in John Donne, XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), pp. 269-281; Evelyn Mary Simpson, ed., Donne's Sermon of Valediction (London: The Nonesuch Press, 1932); George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953-1962), Vol. II, pp. 235-249 and Appendix B; Emma Rhatigan, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume IV: Sermons Preached at the Inns of Court (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Manuscript witnesses appear in: Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 781 (Ashmole MS); Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71 (Merton MS); Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. e. 102 (Dowden MS); Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng D66.4 (Dobell MS); and National Library of Scotland, MS 5767 (Lothian MS).

Description

For more details about this sermon, see Potter and Simpson, Vol. II, pp. 31-36 and the forthcoming edition by Emma Rhatigan.

Source of Data

CELM; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953-1962); Jeanne Shami, 'New Manuscript Texts of Sermons by John Donne', in Peter Beal, ed. English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Volume 13: New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2007), pp. 77-119; Hannah Yip.

Other Note

The full title, written in a secretary hand, reads as follows: 'Docto[r] Dunne's Se[r]mon farewell the Lo. of Bridgwaters sermo[n]. left here by Mr Thomas J 7. Dec. 1619.' Only the title page of this manuscript witness of Donne's sermon is extant. It is conjectured by CELM that the hand is that of Thomas James (1572/3-1629).

GEMMS record created
July 20, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024