Page One of British Library MS Royal 17.B.XX, identified in 1992 by Professor Jeanne Shami (The University of Regina) as a manuscript copy of Donne’s Gunpowder Day sermon for November 5, 1622.

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Figure 2: John Donne, Sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622, Page One. From MS Royal. 17.B. XX. Image courtesy the British Library. 

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MS Royal 17.B.XX