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of great Use and
Service for the Knowledge and Preservation of our Constitution both in Church and State which Manuscripts and other Writings were procured as well from Parts beyond the Seas as from severall Private Collectors of such Antiquities within this Realm are generally esteemed the best Collection of its Kind now any where extant And whereas the said Library has been preserved with the utmost Care and Diligence by the late Sir Thomas Cotton Son of the said Sir Robert and by Sir John Cotton of Westminster now living Grandson of the said Sir Robert and has been very much augmented and enlarged by them and lodged in a very proper Place in the said Sir Johns ancient Mansion House at Westminster which is very convenient for that Purpose And whereas the said Sir John Cotton in pursuance of the Desire and Intentions of his said Father and Grandfather is content and willing that the said Mansion House and Library should continue in his Family and Name and not be sold or otherwise disposed or imbezled and that the said Library should be kept and preserved by the Name of the Cottonian Library for Publick Use & Advantage....
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Such important evidence was highly valuable at a time when the politics of the realm were historically disputed between king and
Parliament. Sir Robert knew his library was of vital public interest and, although he made it freely available to consult, it made him an object of hostility on the part of
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Sir Robert Cotton late of
Connington in the County of Huntingdon Baronett did at his own great Charge and Expense and by the Assistance of the most learned Antiquaries of his Time collect and purchase the most useful Manuscripts Written Books Papers Parchments and other Memorialls in most Languages
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According to scholar, Colin Tite, the system according to the busts was probably not in full effect until 1638; however there are notes that suggest that Sir Robert planned to arrange the library in this system before his death in 1631, but was probably, as Tite hypothesises, interrupted during the
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Strype thus mentions Cotton House: "In the passage out of
Westminster Hall into Old Palace Yard, a little beyond the stairs going up to St. Stephen's Chapel, now the Parliament House" (that is, the present House of Commons), "is the house belonging to the ancient and noble family of the Cottons,
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within the resources of his time. The published report of this work is of major importance in bibliography. Copies of some of the lost works had been made, and many of those damaged could be restored in the nineteenth century. However, these early conservation efforts were not always successful:
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were acquired and added, so that these three became the museum's three "foundation collections". The Royal manuscripts were donated by George II in 1757. In 1973 all these collections passed to the newly established
British Library. The British Library continues to organise its Cottonian books
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A Catalogue of the
Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library. To Which Are Added Many Emendations and Additions. With an Appendix Containing an Account of the Damage Sustained by the Fire in 1731, and Also a Catalogue of the Charters Preserved in the Same
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Sir Robert Cotton had organised his library according to the case, shelf and position of a book within a room twenty-six feet long and six feet wide. Each bookcase in his library was surmounted by a bust of a historical personage, including
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Sir Robert's library included his collection of books, manuscripts, coins and medallions. After his death the collection was maintained and added to by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (d. 1662), and grandson, Sir John Cotton (d. 1702).
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In 1731 the collection was badly damaged by a fire in which 13 manuscripts were completely destroyed, and some 200 seriously damaged. The most important Anglo-Saxon manuscripts had already been copied; the original text of
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On 23 October 1731, fire broke out in
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At the time of the
Dissolution of the Monasteries, official state records and important papers were poorly kept, and often retained privately, neglected or destroyed by public officers.
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wherein is kept a most inestimable library of manuscript volumes found both at home and abroad." Sir
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An Act for the better
Settling and Preserving the Library kept in the House at Westminster, called Cotton-house, in the Name and Family of the Cottons, for the Benefit of the Publick.
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upon his death in 1702. At this time, Great Britain did not have a national library, and the transfer of the Cotton library to the nation became the basis of what is now the
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1173:"COTTON, Rowland (1581-1634), of Crooked Lane, London; later of Alkington Hall, Whitchurch and Bellaport Hall, Norton-in-Hales, Salop | History of Parliament Online"
1123:"COTTON, Rowland (1581-1634), of Crooked Lane, London; later of Alkington Hall, Whitchurch and Bellaport Hall, Norton-in-Hales, Salop | History of Parliament Online"
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the government. On 3 November 1629 he was arrested for disseminating a pamphlet held to be seditious (it had actually been written fifteen years earlier by
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and was a valuable resource and meeting-place not only for antiquarians and scholars but also for politicians and jurists of various persuasions, including
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bungled attempts to clean the Magna Carta exemplification rendered it largely illegible to the naked eye. More recently, advances in
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MP (1571–1631). The collection of books and materials Sir Robert held was one of the three "foundation collections" of the
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c. 30), under which the trustees removed the collections from the ruinous Cotton House, whose site is now covered by the
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are one example of the valuable and prestigious works collected by Sir Robert Cotton. They are now in the
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A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum
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Sir Robert's grandson, Sir John Cotton, donated the Cotton library to
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under one arm, a scene witnessed and later described in a letter to
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A Report from the Committee Appointed to View the Cottonian Library
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is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the
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Downer, L. J. (1972). "Introduction". In Downer, L. J. (ed.).
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By 1622, his house and library stood immediately north of the
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was heavily damaged. Also severely damaged was the Byzantine
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A.ix fragment of the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (ASC H),
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Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
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Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
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implementation by the closure of the library in 1629.
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In 1753 the Cotton library was transferred to the new
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Collection of manuscripts held by the British Library
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1732).
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The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher
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of a 12th-century legal treatise, copied around 1310
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1709:. Panizzi Lectures 1993. London: British Library.
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2904:British Library of Political and Economic Science
1465:"Revealing the secrets of the burnt Magna Carta"
1606:"The Early Catalogues of the Cottonian Library"
718:A.ii "A Pistil of Susan" (frag.) (probably by
498:was badly damaged in the Ashburnam House fire.
2959:Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum
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1986:Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
1796:British Library Digitized Manuscripts Online
1662:De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi
1377:"Their Present Miserable State of Cremation"
758:De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi
1707:The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton
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1148:"The (Almost) Complete Cotton Family Tree"
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1060:List of manuscripts in the Cotton library
688:List of manuscripts in the Cotton library
1816:. University of Sheffield. 11 July 1997.
1631:. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 48.
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541:. One of the collection's two original
1323:. Washington: Folger. pp. 268ff.
1232:. London: Mathews and Leigh. pp.
812:Additional Glosses to the Glossary in
787:A.viii: Bilingual Canterbury Epitome (
2302:Postal Authority Publicity Collection
1547:British Library: Medieval Manuscripts
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336:Text of statute as originally enacted
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3170:Libraries in the City of Westminster
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1660:Offler, H. S. (1951). "The Tractate
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1392:The Library: An Illustrated History
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2212:H.M. Stationery Office Collection
1779:. British Library. Archived from
1724:Wright, Christopher, ed. (1997).
1568:"Manuscripts: Closed Collections"
1467:. British Library. Archived from
1423:Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
1421:; Harrison, Julian, eds. (2015).
1319:Berkowitz, David Sandler (1988).
1177:www.historyofparliamentonline.org
1127:www.historyofparliamentonline.org
959:B.i Abingdon Chronicle II (ASC C)
948:A.vi Abingdon Chronicle I (ASC B)
2598:Dana Research Centre and Library
2537:Libraries and archives in London
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1496:British Library: Collection Care
962:B.iv Worcester Chronicle (ASC D)
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2413:Oral History of British Science
2237:Inland Revenue Stamping Archive
2187:Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2142:Contributions Agency Collection
876:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
608:according to the famous busts.
561:Speaker of the House of Commons
137:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2754:Islington Local History Centre
2660:The Library at Willesden Green
2362:Turner Collection of Forgeries
2357:Treasury Excise Correspondence
2222:Harrison & Sons Collection
1726:Sir Robert Cotton as Collector
104:Dissolution of the Monasteries
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3005:London Action Resource Centre
2918:University of the Arts London
2688:Westminster Reference Library
2408:British Library Sound Archive
1808:British Library Images Online
1667:The English Historical Review
1390:Murray, Stuart A. P. (2009).
1321:John Selden's Formative Years
1247:nortoninhales (2 June 2017).
1197:nortoninhales (2 June 2017).
322:Statute Law Revision Act 1948
2678:London Metropolitan Archives
2307:R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection
2262:Landmark Trust Lundy Archive
2127:Campbell-Johnston Collection
1961:Leyden Medical Dissertations
921:copy of Winchester Chronicle
2964:Library for Iranian Studies
1895:National Reports Collection
1728:. London: British Library.
1610:The British Library Journal
1344:Raithby, John, ed. (1820).
725:A.xv Easter Table Chronicle
527:was destroyed, and that of
80:family who originated near
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2900:London School of Economics
2764:Kensington Central Library
2609:Victoria and Albert Museum
2007:Coptic Language Collection
1976:Suppressed Safe collection
1705:Tite, Colin G. C. (1994).
1604:Tite, Colin G. C. (1980).
1249:"History of Norton Parish"
1199:"History of Norton Parish"
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591:British Museum and Library
343:United Kingdom legislation
241:United Kingdom legislation
3155:Middle English literature
3087:Grosvenor Gallery Library
2846:Battersea Central Library
2668:(Artizan Street Library,
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2192:Foreign Office Collection
1680:10.1093/ehr/LXVI.CCLX.321
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92:publisher, statesman and
3050:House of Commons Library
2347:Supplementary Collection
1885:Francis Place Collection
856:Ælfric's Lives of Saints
395:(Ruffhead: 5 Ann. c. 30)
2922:Stanley Kubrick Archive
2712:Croydon Central Library
2579:National Poetry Library
2157:Crown Agents Collection
2052:Stefan Zweig Collection
1801:10 October 2023 at the
1754:Planta, Joseph (1802).
1749:. London: Hooper. 1777.
928:De creatore et creatura
850:Old English Martyrology
551:Cotton Charter XIII.31A
350:British Museum Act 1706
248:British Museum Act 1700
150:was completely burned.
3160:Old English literature
3054:House of Lords Library
3025:Lambeth Palace Library
2932:Senate House Libraries
2760:Kensington and Chelsea
2589:Parliamentary Archives
2584:Natural History Museum
2418:St Mary-le-Bow Debates
2392:Wilson-Todd Collection
975:Ecclesiastical History
750:illuminated manuscript
511:Charlotte, Lady Sundon
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2969:Marx Memorial Library
2890:King's College London
2798:Upper Norwood Library
2724:Upper Norwood Library
2720:South Norwood Library
2716:New Addington Library
2698:Swiss Cottage Library
2646:East Finchley Library
2604:The National Archives
2297:Photograph Collection
2177:Fitzgerald Collection
2112:Bojanowicz Collection
2037:Lansdowne manuscripts
1951:Harold Pinter Archive
1394:. Chicago: Skyhouse.
1351:Statutes of the Realm
790:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
585:public domain license
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486:Ashburnham House fire
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266:Parliament of England
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2928:University of London
2822:John Harvard Library
2734:Muswell Hill Library
2680:, Shoe Lane Library)
2636:Valence House Museum
2632:Barking and Dagenham
2613:National Art Library
2287:Muraleetharan Papers
2152:Crown Agents Archive
2107:Blackburn Collection
1773:"Cotton manuscripts"
1103:on 12 September 2016
1093:"Cotton Manuscripts"
1010:De duodecim abusivis
989:Ælfwine's Prayerbook
967:Labour of the Months
912:B.x.165 Anglo-Saxon
899:The Battle of Maldon
843:Julius Work Calendar
682:Selected manuscripts
524:The Battle of Maldon
521:. The manuscript of
460:Houses of Parliament
195:Houses of Parliament
170:, and their seat at
147:The Battle of Maldon
131:The Battle of Maldon
88:and employed by the
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3077:British War Library
3036:Evangelical Library
2949:Bishopsgate Library
2884:Abdus Salam Library
2752:(Finsbury Library,
2684:City of Westminster
2656:Kensal Rise Library
2569:Imperial War Museum
2458:Preservation Office
2337:Sherborn Collection
2257:Langmead Collection
2217:Harrison Collection
2182:Fletcher Collection
2172:Feldheim Collection
2137:Chinchen Collection
2068:Beudeker Collection
2022:Harleian Collection
2002:Arundel Manuscripts
1981:Thomason Collection
1875:Ettridge Collection
1629:Leges Henrici Primi
1452:. House of Commons.
1055:Harleian Collection
954:Hemming's Cartulary
935:Otho-Corpus Gospels
916:(destroyed in 1731)
902:(destroyed in 1731)
884:Lindisfarne Gospels
745:Leges Henrici Primi
462:. It went first to
443:13 & 14 Will. 3
289:13 & 14 Will. 3
76:. Cotton was of a
66:Robert Bruce Cotton
38:Lindisfarne Gospels
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2352:Tapling Collection
2332:Shelley Collection
2322:Seymour Collection
2267:McInroy Collection
2247:Kaluski Collection
2242:Johnson Collection
2197:General Collection
2132:Chismon Collection
2122:Burnett Collection
2032:King's manuscripts
2017:Egerton Collection
1941:Garrick Collection
1926:Durrell Collection
1890:Jaffray Collection
1880:Evanion Collection
1760:. London: Hansard.
1490:Duffy, Christina.
1463:Duffy, Christina.
1301:Old and New London
519:Westminster School
506:Codex Alexandrinus
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2377:U.P.U. Collection
2292:Murray Collection
2282:Mosely Collection
2202:Ginger Collection
2162:Davies Collection
2102:Bailey Collection
2084:Burney Collection
2047:Syriac Collection
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