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