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Cotton Library
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Cotton_Library
GPTKB entity
Statements (59)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:library
gptkbp:catalogue
1696
gptkbp:cataloguedIn
gptkb:Thomas_Smith
gptkbp:city
gptkb:London
gptkbp:collectionSize
hundreds of manuscripts
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:currentHolder
gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:destroyedBy
1731 fire
gptkbp:established
early 17th century
gptkbp:foundedBy
gptkb:Sir_Robert_Cotton
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Cotton Library
gptkbp:legalStatus
public property since 1702
gptkbp:location
gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:mergedInto
gptkb:British_Library
gptkbp:notableCollection
manuscripts
gptkbp:notablePlace
gptkb:Beowulf_manuscript
gptkb:Lindisfarne_Gospels
gptkb:Magna_Carta
gptkb:Nowell_Codex
gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
gptkb:Bede's_Ecclesiastical_History
gptkb:Cotton_Genesis
gptkb:Domesday_Book_(excerpts)
gptkb:Gospels_of_St._Chad
gptkb:Junius_manuscript
gptkb:Old_English_Orosius
gptkb:Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight_(fragment)
gptkb:The_Black_Book_of_the_Admiralty
gptkb:The_Book_of_Aicill
gptkb:The_Book_of_Ballymote
gptkb:The_Book_of_Deer
gptkb:The_Book_of_Durrow
gptkb:The_Book_of_Fermoy
gptkb:The_Book_of_Howth
gptkb:The_Book_of_Invasions
gptkb:The_Book_of_Kells_(fragments)
gptkb:The_Book_of_Lecan
gptkb:The_Book_of_Leinster
gptkb:The_Book_of_Lismore
gptkb:The_Book_of_Rights
gptkb:The_Book_of_St._Albans
gptkb:The_Book_of_Uí_Maine
gptkb:The_Book_of_the_Dean_of_Lismore
gptkb:The_Book_of_the_Dun_Cow
gptkb:The_Exeter_Book_(fragments)
gptkb:The_Red_Book_of_the_Exchequer
gptkb:The_Book_of_Armagh
gptkb:Codex_Alexandrinus
gptkb:The_Battle_of_Maldon
gptkb:The_Dream_of_the_Rood
gptkb:Vercelli_Book
gptkbp:origin
gptkb:Cotton_House,_Westminster
gptkbp:shelfmarkSystem
busts of Roman emperors
gptkbp:significance
important for medieval English history
major source of Anglo-Saxon literature
gptkbp:transferredTo
gptkb:British_Museum
1753
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Beowulf_manuscript
gptkbp:bfsLayer
5