GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-007546
Sermon TitleSermon on 2 Corinthians 4:6 (descriptive title)
Extentff. 156r-171r
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)
Bible Texts2 Corinthians 4:6 - 4: 6
Associated Peoplepreacher - Donne, John
Associated SermonsTHE F SERMon by Iohn Donne Doctor of Deuinity & Deane of Paules [MS 52.D.14]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.
Preachings1622-04-22 (old) - St Mary without Bishopsgate - Easter Monday; The place is identified in the manuscript as "ye Spitle", which the Oxford Edition website identifies as "the Spital Cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s without Bishopsgate".
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesThree printings: "A Sermon Preached at the Spittle upon Easter-Munday, 1662: Sermon XXV," in XXVI Sermons Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London (London, 1660/1), pp. 357-392; 2) "Number 3. A Sermon Preached at the Spittle, Upon Easter-Munday, 1622," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 4 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1962), pp. 89-131; 3) "Preached at the Spittle [i.e., the Spital Cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s without Bishopsgate] upon Easter Monday, 1622," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 8, ed. by Mary Morrissey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
DescriptionWritten at the end of the sermon is, "Finis of Doc: Donns Sermon at ye Spitle on Easte [sic] Munday 1622."
Source of DataJeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953), p. 36; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (vol. 8).
Other NoteAnother manuscript copy is found in the St Paul's manuscript, also known as the 'Chetwode MS' (St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14). See Potter and Simpson, vol. 1, p. 36. See the link below for a diplomatic transcription of this version by Erica Longfellow (OESJD).
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
|---|---|
| donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/volume-viii-sermons-civic-pulpits-pauls-cross-spital-virginia-company | Information about Mary Morrissey, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume VIII: Sermons for Civic Pulpits: Paul's Cross, Spital, Virginia Company (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). |
| donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-viii2-2-cor-46#tab-419916 | Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Mary Morrissey. |
| donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-viii2-2-cor-46-0#tab-420521 | Diplomatic transcription of another version of this sermon in the 'Chetwode MS', St Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14 by Erica Longfellow. |
GEMMS record createdApril 13, 2017
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2021