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Cotton library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (454 words) |
 | The Cotton or Cottonian library was the library compiled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571 - 1631), antiquarian and bibliophile. |
| Cotton amassed his collection by gathering up the books and artifacts freed up by the dispersal of the monasteries by Henry VIII. |
| The Cotton Genesis was all but destroyed in the Ashburnam House fire. |
| Robert Bruce Cotton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (371 words) |
| Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (January 22 1570/1-May 6, 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library. |
| Despite his early period of goodwill with James I, during which he was made a baronet, Cotton's politics became anti-royalist in nature and the authorities began to fear the uses of his library, which was confiscated in 1630 and returned only after his death to his heirs. |
| Cotton Caligula A.ii "A Pistil of Susan" (frag.) |
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