Cotton library
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 The Lindisfarne Gospels is but one of the treasures collected by Sir Robert Cotton. |
Statutory trustees were appointed for the library, who removed it from the ruinous Cotton House, whose site is now covered by the Houses of Parliament. It went first to Essex House, The Strand which was regarded as a fire risk, and so was removed to Ashburnham House, a little West of the Palace of Westminster. From 1707 the library also housed the Old Royal Library (now "Royal" manuscripts at the British Library). In 1753 the Cotton library was transferred to the new British Museum under the Act of Parliament which established it. At the same time the Sloane Collection and Harley Collection were acquired and added, so that these three form the three "foundation collections" of the British Museum. The books were transferred to the British Library when this was formed in the 1970s. The Royal manuscripts were donated by George II in 1757.
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- Related: Harleian Collection
| A History of the Cotton Library A History of the Cotton Library www.bl.uk/.../cottonmss.html - Web |
| Cotton, Wanley, & Kemble Cotton, Wanley, & Kemble www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/antiquaries.html - Web |
| The Beowulf manuscript was damaged in a fire in As... The Beowulf manuscript was damaged in a fire in Ashburnham House on October 23, 1731. www.beowulftranslations.net/fire.shtml - Web |
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