GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-007537
Sermon TitleSermon on Psalms 38:9 (descriptive title)
Extentff. 95r-101v
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)
Bible TextsPsalms 38:9 - 38: 9
Associated Peoplepreacher - Donne, John
Associated Sermons
Preachingsca. 1620-12-21 - 1620-03-20 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Occasion not identified; The place is not given in the text, but is identified in printed versions of the sermon. No date is given in the text. The Oxford Edition places it in winter 1620 rather than spring 1618, the date given by earlier scholars.
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesFive printings: 1) Privately printed by Wilfred Merton from Dowden manuscript in 1921; 2) "Appendix A: Sermon by Donne (Hitherto Unpublished)," in Evelyn M. Simpson, A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne, 1st ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 321-339; 3) "Number 6. Preached at Lincoln's Inn," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 2 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955), pp. 144-163; 4) George Reuben Potter, ed., A Sermon Preached at Lincoln's Inn by John Donne on the Ninth Verse of Psalm 38 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1946); 5) "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, Lothian, and Dobell manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson vol. 1, p. 36). The sermon was printed only in the first edition of Simpson's Study of the Prose Works of John Donne (1924); it was removed from the second edition (1948).
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
|---|---|
| www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-4 | Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (Volume 4) |
| www.cems-oxford.org/donne/sermons-in-manuscript/sermons/oesjd-iv8-on-psal-389-0 | Full text of the sermon on the Oxford Edition website |
GEMMS record createdApril 13, 2017
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2021