The Lindisfarne Gospels is but one of the treasures collected by Sir Robert Cotton.

The Cotton or Cottonian library is the library compiled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571 - 1631), antiquarian and bibliophile. Cotton's library was just that: the books, manuscripts, coins and medalions he had collected in his personal estate. Cotton amassed his collection by gathering up the books and artifacts freed up by the dispersal of the monasteries by Henry VIII. Consequently, his collection is the single greatest resource of literature in Old English and Middle English we have. We owe Beowulf, Pearl, and the Lindisfarne Gospels to Cotton's collection. Download high resolution version (1266x1797, 539 KB)Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Incipit to the Gospel of Matthew From [http://www. ... Download high resolution version (1266x1797, 539 KB)Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Incipit to the Gospel of Matthew From [http://www. ... Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ... Modern-style library In its traditional sense, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), (1593-1661). ... Events January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion. ... Events February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. ... Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ... Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Middle English is the name given by historical philologists to the diverse forms of the English language spoken in England from around the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to the mid to late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard... The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ... Pearl is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. ... Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew. ...

The leading scholars of the era came to use his library. Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, James Ussher and others came to use his works. Upon the foundation of the Bodleian Library, he made a substantial contribution. Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans (January 22, 1561 – April 9, 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. ... Alternatively, Professor Walter Raleigh was a scholar and author circa 1900. ... James Ussher (also spelled Usher) (January 4, 1581–March 21, 1656) was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656 and a prolific religious scholar who most famously published a chronology which dated creation from 4004 BC. Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland into a well-to... Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges Oxford University Libraries Service (OULS) comprises over 30 of the University of Oxfords central and faculty libraries: from the world famous Bodleian Library, established 400 years ago, to the modern digital library ventures. ...

The Cotton Genesis was all but destroyed in the Ashburnam House fire.

His grandson, Sir John Cotton, gave the rest of the library to the nation of Great Britain. The library went first to Essex House and then to Ashburnham House. In 1731, there was a fire in Ashburnam House, and many manuscripts were lost, while others were badly singed. Fortunately, copies had been made of some of the manuscripts, but by no means all, of those works that were lost. The Cotton library is now part of the British Library. Download high resolution version (543x757, 64 KB)Fragment 26v of the Cotton Genesis. ... Download high resolution version (543x757, 64 KB)Fragment 26v of the Cotton Genesis. ... Categories: Art stubs | Illuminated manuscripts ... Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. ... British Library main building, London The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the worlds largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items and adding some 3 million every year. ...

Robert Cotton had organized his library according to the corner and shelf of a book. He had busts of the various Caesars in his library, and his scheme worked by Caesar-Shelf letter-Volume number from end. Thus, the two most famous of the manuscripts from the Cotton library are "Cotton Vitellius A.xv" and "Cotton Nero A.x." In Cotton's own day, that meant "Go to the bust of Vitellius, top shelf (A), and count fifteen over," for the monstrarum librarum of the Beowulf manuscript, or "Go to the bust of Nero, top shelf, tenth book" for the manuscript containing all the works of the Pearl Poet. In the British Museum, these two priceless books are still catalogued by these call numbers. Caesar (p. ... Aulus Vitellius Germanicus (September 24 AD 15–December 22, 69) was Roman Emperor from April 17 69 to December 22 of the same year, one of the emperors in the Year of the four emperors. He was the son of Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria... Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (15 December 37–9 June 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called (50–54 AD) Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. ... The Pearl Poet is the name given to the author of Pearl, an alliterative poem written in Middle English. ...