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GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-007538
Sermon TitleSermon on Colossians 1:24 (descriptive title)
Extentff. 103r-109r
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)
Associated Peoplepreacher - Donne, John
Associated Sermons
Preachings1614-01-23 - 1620-12-31 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Occasion not identified; The place is not given in the text, but is identified in Donne's printed "Fifty Sermons". No date is given, but the Oxford Edition website places it before January 1620, and it must be after Donne's ordination on 23 January 1614/5.
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesThree printings: 1) "Sermon XVI. Preached at Lincolns Inne", in Fifty Sermons, Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr in Divinity, Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls London (London, 1649), pp. 128-135; 2) "Number 16. Preached at Lincolns Inne," in in George R. Potter and Evelyn, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 3 (Berekeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962) pp. 332-347; 3) "Preached at Lincoln’s Inn," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, vol. 4, ed. Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Description
Source of DataJeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), p. 36; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (vol. 4)
Other NoteOther manuscript copies appear in the Dowden and Lothian manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson vol. 1, p. 36).
Attached URLs:
URLNotes
www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-4Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (Volume 4)
www.cems-oxford.org/donne/sermons-in-manuscript/sermons/oesjd-iv2-on-col-124-0Full text of the sermon on the Oxford Edition website
GEMMS record createdApril 13, 2017
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2021