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The early records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library : formation, cataloguing, use / Colin G.C. Tite.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tite, Colin G. C. (Colin Gerald Calder), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631--Library.
- Cotton, Robert.
- British Library. Department of Manuscripts--Catalogs.
- British Library.
- Private libraries--England--Catalogs.
- Private libraries.
- Manuscripts--England--Catalogs.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Library, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and the dispersal of their libraries, a number of British collectors set to work to recover as much as possible. Of their second generation, Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631) was an outstanding member, also acquiring a wide range of other material. Indeed, so important was his library that it became one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753. Significant records- never previously studied as a whole- survive from the early years of Cotton's library and this book edits and analyses these, throwing important new light on Sir Robert, his son and grandson as collectors, and providing much fresh evidence on the history of their collection and its development. "
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Loans lists and memoranda
- Entries compiled to bring together loans lists and memoranda records, catalogue descriptions and other references
- Annex 1 Entries, unidentified by pressmark, in the loans lists and memoranda
- Annex 3 Contents-tables
- Annex 4 Manuscript volumes displaying fore-edge titles
- Annex 5 Pressmarks
- Annex 6 Marks in manuscripts
- Annex 7 Cotton bindings and binding instructions
- Annex 8 Title-pages
- Index of Printed Books
- Index of Names
- Index of Manuscripts Cited.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7123-6359-9
- OCLC:
- 926442531
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