#Arthur Henry Bullen

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This Publishers’ Binding Thursday we bring you this cheery little book. It is Speculum Amantis: Love-Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century. It is a collection of love poems edited by English scholar, editor, and publisher Arthur Henry (A.H.) Bullen (1857-1920). Bullen was a 16th- and 17-century specialist and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, now an imprint of Wiley-Blackwell. This edition of Speculum Amantis was published in 1902 and was privately printed by Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd. in Camden Town, London. 

The binding is very nice, with a pattern of small flowers and stars set in a diamond-patterned border. The book cloth is a teal blue color, which sets the gold stamping off nicely. On the spine are the same patterns, along with the title and the editor’s name, and, unfortunately, a call number sticker. 

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Catalina, Kathryn, and Katherine

I've been looking at the spellings for each of the Catherines because I find it interesting and I was curious if people in the Six fandom (and the musical itself) were using the right version since we all seem to use the same. Note: this is based on their wikipedia pages, the titles of the sources on those pages, Six the Musical, and what I’ve seen people using when talking about them or writing fanfiction.

So for Aragon, the wiki page refers to her as Catherine except for when it’s directly quoting something. The quotes are more often Katherine or Katharine. I find it interesting that the article does that since it has a section about the spelling of her name which says her baptismal name is Catalina but in most of her signatures it’s a variation of Katherine, all with a K. This is also the case in letters from her daughter and from Arthur (her first husband). Furthermore, lots of things Henry decorated or had made for them had the initials H & K. However, I only ever see her referred to as Catherine either because that’s how she’s listed in the programme for Six, that’s the title of her wiki page, or that seems to be the default way of spelling the name Catherine these days. 

Next is Howard, who the Six fandom refer to as Katherine due to the line “K Howard is here” and that’s how she’s listed in the programme. Once again her page refers to her as Catherine the entire way through despite again having a section saying her only surviving signature is “Kathryn” but it goes on to say that her chief biographer uses Catherine. Lots of people in the six fandom use nicknames for Katherine, mainly Kat and Kitty.

Finally is Parr who’s also referred to as Catherine but the page starts with saying she is also referred to as 4 variations of Katherine with a K. There’s a section where it seems to be constantly switching between C and K throughout, which is confusing as it mentions a Katherine Neville at the very beginning. I decided it is talking about Parr despite the changes because it refers to “Katherine’s brother William Parr”. Most of the sources or further readings use Katherine too. In the Six fandom, we use Catherine (like the programme) and also the nickname Cathy from the show’s line “gold star for Cathy Parr”.

Also, on a similar topic, Cleves has a similar issue but not a extreme. Her Germanic name is Anna von Kleve but the anglicised version is Anne of Cleves. In general, there is more consistency with calling her Anne, but Six (and thus the fandom) call her Anna of Cleves which is a mashup of the two but helps us differ between her and Anne Boleyn. People also use the mashup of Anna of Kleve(s) (myself included) but this is also technically wrong.

I thought Anne was free of this but in double-checking to confirm, it turns out she also varied her name, however mostly her second name. Boleyn has been spelled as Bullen and Bolena. While in the Netherlands, Anne signed her name as Anna de Boullan and portraits of her often use the Latin form Anna Bolina. Despite this, everyone seems to have agreed to call her Anne Boleyn (both academically and in the media/fandom).

Total variations of Catherine found: 9 and the first 8 were all on Aragon’s page. Catherine, Catalina, Katherine, Katherina, Katharine, Katharina, Katerine, Kateryn, and Kathryn. Jane never had these issues

Bonus history reasons for the many versions: in Tudor times, spelling hadn’t been confirmed so everyone spelled things however they wanted, as long as it made the right type of sound. This is the main reason there are so many variations. Also, they mostly use K because in Latin inscriptions, C is used for 100. No one wanted people to read their sign as 100atherine.

[sadhanhansda]

Albert Einstein, the renowned scientist, propounded the Theory of Relativity in 1915. But this theory was not easily comprehensible. Even now, it is not. In a lecture, Einstein explained his theory like this, "When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. This is relativity."

Arthur Henry Bullen (1857-1920), British editor, poet and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, explained this theory more appropriately in the following words:

"There was a young lady named Bright Who travelled much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And returned on the previous night."

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), the American-British poet, used the following lines by Shakespeare about age old in the epigraph to his poem, "Gerontion":

"Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after-dinner sleep, Dreaming of both."

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Image taken from: Title: "A Christmas Garland. Carols and poems form the fifteenth century to the present time. Edited by A. H. Bullen. With ... illustrations, etc" Author(s): Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1857-1920 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 11602.g.14" Page: 276 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1885 Publisher: J. C. Nimmo Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: xxxii, 278 pages (8°) Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 000526883 (physical copy) and 014816364 (digitised copy) (numbers are British Library identifiers) Other links related to this image: - View this image as a scanned publication on the British Library’s online viewer (you can download the image, selected pages or the whole book) - Order a higher quality scanned version of this image from the British Library Other links related to this publication: - View all the illustrations found in this publication - View all the illustrations in publications from the same year (1885) - Download the Optical Character Recognised (OCR) derived text for this publication as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) - Explore and experiment with the British Library’s digital collections The British Library community is able to flourish online thanks to freely available resources such as this. You can help support our mission to continue making our collection accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment, by donating on the British Library supporter webpage here. Thank you for supporting the British Library. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/3fSTart

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Author: BULLEN, Arthur Henry.

Page: 236

Year: 1885

Place: London

Publisher: J. C. Nimmo

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Author: BULLEN, Arthur Henry.

Page: 186

Year: 1885

Place: London

Publisher: J. C. Nimmo

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Image taken from: Title: "A Christmas Garland. Carols and poems form the fifteenth century to the present time. Edited by A. H. Bullen. With ... illustrations, etc" Author: BULLEN, Arthur Henry. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 11602.g.14." Page: 272 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1885 Publisher: J. C. Nimmo Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000526883 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 0) Image found on book scan 272 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot https://ift.tt/2TQ0nRT

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Image taken from: Title: "[The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins ... By R. S., a passenger in the Hector. [The author's introduction signed: R. P. i.e. Robert Paltock.]]" Author: Paltock, Robert Contributor: BULLEN, Arthur Henry. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 12604.i.11." Volume: 02 Page: 100 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1884 Publisher: Reeves & Turner Edition: [Another edition.] With a preface by A. H. Bullen. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 002757539 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 02) Image found on book scan 100 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot http://ift.tt/2DZX13w

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Image taken from: Title: "[The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins ... By R. S., a passenger in the Hector. [The author's introduction signed: R. P. i.e. Robert Paltock.]]" Author: Paltock, Robert Contributor: BULLEN, Arthur Henry. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 12604.i.11." Volume: 01 Page: 31 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1884 Publisher: Reeves & Turner Edition: [Another edition.] With a preface by A. H. Bullen. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 002757539 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Download the PDF for this book (volume: 01) Image found on book scan 31 (NB not necessarily a page number) Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot http://ift.tt/2kPkKwd

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Author: BULLEN, Arthur Henry.

Page: 256

Year: 1885

Place: London

Publisher: J. C. Nimmo

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