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Chronicle of King Henry VIII of England
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114920:577 (fragment)
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This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.
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Manuscripts
5 membranes, face and some of dorse. Incipit: Temporum summam lineamque descendentem ab exordio mundi cum successionibus quorundam regnorum et regum ad eruditionem futurorum duximus annotare. Explicit: Et humfridus dux Gloucestrie protector Anglie. Et xxiiio anno regni sui accepit in uxorem margaretam filiam ducis Andegavie. Tunc Eboraci erat regens regni francie. Latin. Chronicle in roll form from Adam to Edward IV, in parallel columns connecting the history of the kings of Britain to Roman and biblical history through the Arthurian legends. The text ends at 23 Henry VI (1444), but the genealogical lineage continues to"Edwardus quartus Rex Anglie et vi hibernie" (reg. 1461-83). His face is colored in, but none of his children are shown. A single roundel descending from Henry VI, left blank originally, has"Edwardus" added to it in a contemporary hand. Occasional additional genealogical notes entered by a contemporary hand. Regarding chronicles on rolls, see the discussion of Lyell 33 and related manuscripts in de la Mare, Lyell Cat., 80-85. HM 264 differs from that group, and is closer in format to Cambridge, Trinity College MS R. 4. 52 (incomplete) and to Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Houghton Library, bMS Typ 40 (between 1461-64?) with which HM 264 shares the artist and possibly the scribe; see Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts (forthcoming). At least one membrane lacking; some of the text continues on the dorse, but the dorse of membranes 2 and 1 are blank, save that at the end of membrane 1 there is an incomplete and apparently discarded draft of the lineage of Edward III and his children, without text.
mssHM 264