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Cotton library

The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts once owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

The manuscripts were named after their physical position in the library, relative to busts of historical figures. For example, Cotton Nero A x means "by the bust of Nero, top shelf (A), tenth book (x)". While the volumes are no longer in this position, they retain the names as their British Library call numbers.

Manuscripts

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Cleopatra

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  • Cotton Cleopatra A II: Life of St. Modwenna
  • Cotton Cleopatra A III: The Cleopatra Glossaries: Latin-Old English glossaries (Commons file)
  • Cotton Cleopatra A XIV
  • Cotton Cleopatra A XVI
  • Cotton Cleopatra B III
  • Cotton Cleopatra B IX
  • Cotton Cleopatra B XIII: Miscellany (Commons file)
  • Cotton Cleopatra C VIII
  • Cotton Cleopatra D I: (Commons file)
    • ff. 2r–82r: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (Concerning Architecture)
    • f. 82v: Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini (Abridgments from the Sentences of St. Augustine); Epitaph of Vitalis
    • ff. 83r–128v: Vegetius, De Re Militari (Concerning Military Matters)
    • ff. 130r–197v: Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (Collection of Wonderful Things)
  • Cotton Cleopatra E VI

Julius

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  • Cotton Julius A II (transcription project)
    • Item 1, ff. 2–9 (1st quarter of the 12th century)
      • Bede, De temporum ratione, books lxvi–lxx (imperfect)
    • Item 2, ff. 10–135 (mid-11th century)):
      • Ælfric, Grammar (10r–120v, imperfect)
      • Ælfric, Glossary (120v–130v)
      • A grammatical treatise, beginning "Sum verbum substantium" (131r–135v)
    • Item 3, ff. 136–144 (2nd half of the 12th century):
      • A metrical prayer (136r–137r)
      • Adrian and Ritheus (137v–140r)
      • Disticha Catonis (141r–144v: excerpts)
  • Cotton Julius A VII (transcription project)

Nero

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Vitellius

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Catalogues

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  • "The Early Catalogues of the Cottonian Library" by Colin G. C. Tite in The British Library Journal, 6 (2) (1980), pp. 144–157 (external scan)
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