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List of manuscripts in the Cotton library

This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection[1] of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in other libraries and collections.

Robert Bruce Cotton organized his library in a room 26 feet (7.9 m) long by six feet wide filled with bookpresses, each with the bust of a figure from classical antiquity on top. Counterclockwise, these were Julius Caesar, Augustus, Cleopatra, Faustina, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. (Domitian had only one shelf, perhaps because it was over the door). In each press, each shelf was assigned a letter; manuscripts were identified by the bust over the press, the shelf letter, and the position of the manuscript (in Roman numerals) counting from the left side of the shelf. Thus, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Nero B.iv, was the fourth manuscript from the left on the second shelf (shelf B) of the press under the bust of Nero. For Domitian and Augustus, which had only one shelf each, the shelf letter was left out of the press-mark. The British Museum retained Cotton's press-marks when the Cotton collection became one of the foundational collections of its library, so manuscripts are still designated by library, bookpress, shelf, and number (even though they are no longer stored in that fashion). For example, the manuscript of Beowulf is designated Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv, and the manuscript of Pearl is Cotton MS Nero A.x.

Augustus

Caligula

Claudius

Cleopatra

Domitian

Faustina

Galba

Julius

Nero

Otho

Tiberius

Titus

Vespasian

Vitellius

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Cotton manuscripts". British Library. Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk fl fm fn fo "Browse Archives and Manuscripts". hviewer.bl.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
  3. ^ Mills, M (Ed). 1969. Lybeaus Desconus. Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society. 302 pp. Middle English romances in British Library MS Cotton Caligula A.ii, p 1.
  4. ^ Takako Kato. "London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. xv". The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220. University of Leicester.
  5. ^ "London, British Library, MSS Cotton Caligula A.XV, fols. 120r–153v + Egerton 3314, fols. 1r–44v". Medieval primary sources. University of Lancaster.
  6. ^ "London, British Library, MS. Cotton Claudius B. VII". The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  7. ^ "The Utrecht Psalter". Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  8. ^ Takako Kato. "London, British Library, Cotton Faustina A. v + Dublin Trinity College 114 (A. 5. 2)". The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220. University of Leicester.
  9. ^ "London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.XI". The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  10. ^ "London, British Library, MS. Cotton Nero E. I". The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue. British Library. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  11. ^ "Portal to manuscript descriptions: list of manuscripts". The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220. University of Leicester.
  12. ^ Fowler, Roger (ed.). "A Late Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor." Anglia 83.1 (1965): 1-34.
  13. ^ Wade-Evans, A. W. Vitae Britanniae et Genealogiae. University of Wales Press Board, Cardiff, 1944, pg. viii.
  14. ^ Elaine Treharne. "London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. xiv". The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220. University of Leicester.
  15. ^ "London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vespasian D XIX". The British Library Manuscripts Catalogue. British Library. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

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