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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
Ashburnham House, in which 13 manuscripts were lost, while over 200 others faced severe destruction and water damage. Bentley escaped while clutching the priceless
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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
Christopher Wren describes the house in his time as in "a very ruinous condition."
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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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1162:"COTTON, Rowland (1581-1634), of Crooked Lane, London; later of Alkington Hall, Whitchurch and Bellaport Hall, Norton-in-Hales, Salop | History of Parliament Online"
1112:"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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1803:"Cotton Manuscripts Project: This project assisted the British Library in updating the catalogues of the manuscript library of Sir Robert Cotton (1586-1631)"
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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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led by Christina Duffy to scan and upload images of previously illegible early English manuscripts damaged in the fire. Images will form part of
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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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467:(now "Royal" manuscripts at the British Library). Ashburnham House also became the residence of the keeper of the king's libraries,
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acted as his librarian. The library is of special importance for having preserved the only copy of several works, including
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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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An Act for the better securing her Majesty's Purchase of Cotton House in Westminster.
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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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471:(1662–1742), a renowned theologian and classical scholar.
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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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photography have enabled imaging specialists at the
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1698:. Panizzi Lectures 1993. London: British Library.
750:(missing introduction and parts of the conclusion)
2893:British Library of Political and Economic Science
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1454:"Revealing the secrets of the burnt Magna Carta"
1595:"The Early Catalogues of the Cottonian Library"
707:A.ii "A Pistil of Susan" (frag.) (probably by
487:was badly damaged in the Ashburnam House fire.
2948:Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum
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1975:Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
1785:British Library Digitized Manuscripts Online
1651:De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi
1366:"Their Present Miserable State of Cremation"
747:De Iniusta Vexacione Willelmi Episcopi Primi
1696:The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton
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2361:Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps
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1287:"LVIII: The Royal Palace of Westminster".
1137:"The (Almost) Complete Cotton Family Tree"
2356:Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps
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1049:List of manuscripts in the Cotton library
677:List of manuscripts in the Cotton library
1805:. University of Sheffield. 11 July 1997.
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325:Text of statute as originally enacted
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1768:. British Library. Archived from
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1713:Wright, Christopher, ed. (1997).
1557:"Manuscripts: Closed Collections"
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1456:. British Library. Archived from
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1412:Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
1410:; Harrison, Julian, eds. (2015).
1308:Berkowitz, David Sandler (1988).
1166:www.historyofparliamentonline.org
1116:www.historyofparliamentonline.org
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948:B.i Abingdon Chronicle II (ASC C)
937:A.vi Abingdon Chronicle I (ASC B)
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550:Speaker of the House of Commons
126:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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2649:The Library at Willesden Green
2351:Turner Collection of Forgeries
2346:Treasury Excise Correspondence
2211:Harrison & Sons Collection
1715:Sir Robert Cotton as Collector
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2397:British Library Sound Archive
1797:British Library Images Online
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1656:The English Historical Review
1379:Murray, Stuart A. P. (2009).
1310:John Selden's Formative Years
1236:nortoninhales (2 June 2017).
1186:nortoninhales (2 June 2017).
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311:Statute Law Revision Act 1948
2667:London Metropolitan Archives
2296:R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection
2251:Landmark Trust Lundy Archive
2116:Campbell-Johnston Collection
1950:Leyden Medical Dissertations
910:copy of Winchester Chronicle
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2953:Library for Iranian Studies
1884:National Reports Collection
1717:. London: British Library.
1599:The British Library Journal
1333:Raithby, John, ed. (1820).
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714:A.xv Easter Table Chronicle
516:was destroyed, and that of
69:family who originated near
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2889:London School of Economics
2753:Kensington Central Library
2598:Victoria and Albert Museum
1996:Coptic Language Collection
1965:Suppressed Safe collection
1694:Tite, Colin G. C. (1994).
1593:Tite, Colin G. C. (1980).
1238:"History of Norton Parish"
1188:"History of Norton Parish"
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332:United Kingdom legislation
230:United Kingdom legislation
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1874:Francis Place Collection
845:Ælfric's Lives of Saints
384:(Ruffhead: 5 Ann. c. 30)
2911:Stanley Kubrick Archive
2701:Croydon Central Library
2568:National Poetry Library
2146:Crown Agents Collection
2041:Stefan Zweig Collection
1790:10 October 2023 at the
1743:Planta, Joseph (1802).
1738:. London: Hooper. 1777.
917:De creatore et creatura
839:Old English Martyrology
540:Cotton Charter XIII.31A
339:British Museum Act 1706
237:British Museum Act 1700
139:was completely burned.
3149:Old English literature
3043:House of Lords Library
3014:Lambeth Palace Library
2921:Senate House Libraries
2749:Kensington and Chelsea
2578:Parliamentary Archives
2573:Natural History Museum
2407:St Mary-le-Bow Debates
2381:Wilson-Todd Collection
964:Ecclesiastical History
739:illuminated manuscript
500:Charlotte, Lady Sundon
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3020:Dr Williams's Library
2958:Marx Memorial Library
2879:King's College London
2787:Upper Norwood Library
2713:Upper Norwood Library
2709:South Norwood Library
2705:New Addington Library
2687:Swiss Cottage Library
2635:East Finchley Library
2593:The National Archives
2286:Photograph Collection
2166:Fitzgerald Collection
2101:Bojanowicz Collection
2026:Lansdowne manuscripts
1940:Harold Pinter Archive
1383:. Chicago: Skyhouse.
1340:Statutes of the Realm
779:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
574:public domain license
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475:Ashburnham House fire
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357:Parliament of England
255:Parliament of England
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2917:University of London
2811:John Harvard Library
2723:Muswell Hill Library
2669:, Shoe Lane Library)
2625:Valence House Museum
2621:Barking and Dagenham
2602:National Art Library
2276:Muraleetharan Papers
2141:Crown Agents Archive
2096:Blackburn Collection
1762:"Cotton manuscripts"
1092:on 12 September 2016
1082:"Cotton Manuscripts"
999:De duodecim abusivis
978:Ælfwine's Prayerbook
956:Labour of the Months
901:B.x.165 Anglo-Saxon
888:The Battle of Maldon
832:Julius Work Calendar
671:Selected manuscripts
513:The Battle of Maldon
510:. The manuscript of
449:Houses of Parliament
184:Houses of Parliament
159:, and their seat at
136:The Battle of Maldon
120:The Battle of Maldon
77:and employed by the
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3066:British War Library
3025:Evangelical Library
2938:Bishopsgate Library
2873:Abdus Salam Library
2741:(Finsbury Library,
2673:City of Westminster
2645:Kensal Rise Library
2558:Imperial War Museum
2447:Preservation Office
2326:Sherborn Collection
2246:Langmead Collection
2206:Harrison Collection
2171:Fletcher Collection
2161:Feldheim Collection
2126:Chinchen Collection
2057:Beudeker Collection
2011:Harleian Collection
1991:Arundel Manuscripts
1970:Thomason Collection
1864:Ettridge Collection
1618:Leges Henrici Primi
1441:. House of Commons.
1044:Harleian Collection
943:Hemming's Cartulary
924:Otho-Corpus Gospels
905:(destroyed in 1731)
891:(destroyed in 1731)
873:Lindisfarne Gospels
734:Leges Henrici Primi
451:. It went first to
432:13 & 14 Will. 3
278:13 & 14 Will. 3
65:. Cotton was of a
55:Robert Bruce Cotton
27:Lindisfarne Gospels
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2341:Tapling Collection
2321:Shelley Collection
2311:Seymour Collection
2256:McInroy Collection
2236:Kaluski Collection
2231:Johnson Collection
2186:General Collection
2121:Chismon Collection
2111:Burnett Collection
2021:King's manuscripts
2006:Egerton Collection
1930:Garrick Collection
1915:Durrell Collection
1879:Jaffray Collection
1869:Evanion Collection
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