Bibliotheca Cottoniana

Bibliotheca Cottoniana est collectio locupletissima codicum manu scriptorum a Roberto Bruce Cotton (mortuo 1631) saeculo XVII ineunte congesta. Bibliotheca a nepote Ioanne anno 1700 civitati Britannicae data est. Die 23 Octobris 1731 incendio multi libri deperditi sunt. Ei qui supersunt hodie in Bibliotheca Britannica servantur.

Manuscripta selecta

"Prima charta regis Edwardi" abbatiae Westmonasteriensis (Cotton Chartae VI 2) incendio Cottoniano lacerata

BL Cotton Claudius D.ii
BL Cotton Otho B.vi
BL Cotton Tiberius A.xiii: Hemingi Chartularium

Bibliographia

Simon Keynes, "The reconstruction of a burnt Cottonian manuscript: the case of Cotton MS. Otho A. I" in British Library Journal vol. 22 (1996)
Joseph Planta, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum. Londinii: Hansard, 1802
Andrew Prescott, "'Their Present Miserable State of Cremation': the Restoration of the Cotton Library" in C. J. Wright, ed., Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy (Londinii: British Library Publications, 1997) vpp. 391-454
Colin G. C. Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton. Londinii, 1994
Colin G. C. Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use. Londinii: British Library, 2003
Colin G. C. Tite, ed., Thomas Smith: Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, 1696. D.S. Brewer, 1984
Christopher J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector. Londinii, 1997

Nexus externi

Index librorum bibliothecae Cottonianae aliter
De Roberto Cotton apud Collegium Trinitatis Cantabrigiense
De incendio Cottoniano