GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-023112
Sermon TitleDocto[r] Dunne's Se[r]mon farewell the Lo. of Bridgwaters sermo[n]
Extentf. 45r-v
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon Fragment
Sermon Type(s)Farewell
Bible TextsEcclesiastes 12:1 - 12: 1
Associated SermonsSermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 [MS 5767]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 [MS. Eng. th. c. 71]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 [Harley MS 6356]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.
Preachings1619-04-18 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Farewell; This date is identified in a print witness of the sermon (XXVI Sermons, 1661).
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesThis 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).
DescriptionFor more details about this sermon, see Potter and Simpson, Vol. II, pp. 31-36 and the forthcoming edition by Emma Rhatigan.
Source of DataCELM; 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 NoteThe 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 createdJuly 20, 2021
GEMMS record last editedJuly 20, 2021