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Add MS 36789
- Record Id:
- 040-002055281
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055263
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001047.0x000180
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 36789
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CATALOGUE of the manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Museum; drawn up (cf. ff. 156, 171) after his death (1631) and before 1638, and written in at least three different hands. Cotton's library was sealed up by an order of Council in Nov. 1629. After his death a petition for its restitution was addressed by Sir Thomas Cotton, his son, to the king, who ordered a catalogue to be first made (Cal. of State Papers, 1631-33, p. 224); and later (1633?) in a petition to the Council Sir T. Cotton mentions the catalogue as finished (ibid. 1633-1634, p. 370). The library appears to have been restored to him before 2 Mar. 1635[6], when MSS. were again lent out from it (Harl. MS. 6018, f. 181); and the present catalogue was either compiled soon after or, more probably, is a copy of the official catalogue mentioned above. At the end (f. 171), before the index (ff. 172b-182), is a receipt given to Sir T. Cotton, 26 Feb. 1637[8], on the return of a MS. borrowed by his father from the royal library; it is in the same hand as the preceding section of the catalogue, and is no doubt a copy made at the same time, the scribe misreading the signature of Pa[trick] Young, royal librarian, as 'La Young.' The catalogue is arranged according to cases (scrinia), right and left sides (latera) and shelves (classes). It appears to be independent of the earlier catalogue of 1621 (Harl. MS. 6018), where the MSS. are numbered consecutively from 1 to 413; but it was utilized for the later catalogue, now Add. MS. 36682 A, B (see above, p. 188), where the MSS. are arranged in order of the names of the Roman emperors as at present, having in the interval been 'new plact' (Add. MS. 5161, f. 9). The latter system was probably first adopted in 1638 (ibid. f. 9b, Cotton MS. App. xiv., art. 13, f. 4b).
Paper; ff. 182. Circ. 1640. At the top of the first page of the catalogue (f. 3), 'Lib[er] Edwardi Fauconberge', in a contemporary hand. In the original vellum covers. Crowcombe Court sale-cat. 1903. lot 135. Folio.
Cotton Library: Catalogues of,: temp. Chas. I. 1635.
Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Sir R. Cotton's MSS.: circ. 1635, temp. Chas.I.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055263
040-002055281 - Is part of:
- Add MS 36773-36789 : Add MSS 36773-36789, belonged to the family of Carew, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset (see the Fourth Report of the Historical…
Add MS 36789 : CATALOGUE of the manuscripts of Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Museum; drawn up (cf. ff. 156, 171) after his death (1631)… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002055263[0016]/040-002055281
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 36773-36789
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1635
- End Date:
- 1645
- Date Range:
- c 1640
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Edward Fauconberge: Owned: 17th cent.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Cotton Library
Fauconberge, Edward, former owner of a catalogue of Sir Robert Cotton's manuscripts, fl 1640