GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-012471
Sermon TitleA sermon preached at the Spittell one mundaye in Easter week Aprilis 8 1588. By Mr Doct: Bisse
In ManuscriptFour sermons, c. 1588: MS 38.F.22
Extentff. 17r-34r
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeTranscription of Sermon (Source Unknown)
Sermon Type(s)Passion
Bible TextsMatthew 13:27 - 13: 30
Associated Peoplepreacher? - Bisse, Philip
Associated Sermons
Preachings1588-04-08 (old) - St Mary - Easter Monday;
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesIn 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).
DescriptionBisse 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 DataPeter McCullough, ed., Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 304-305 and pp. 462-463; Hannah Yip
Other NotePreacher 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 createdJuly 05, 2018
GEMMS record last editedOctober 31, 2023