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Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13
- Record Id:
- 040-004521146
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100179630206.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100193759332.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13
- Title:
- Notes of manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains a set of notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), broadly arranged in chronological order, and dating from 1638 to 1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650 to 1661. The entries are frequently written in the hand of the borrowers, which include Edward Herbert (b. c. 1591, d. 1658), John Selden (b. 1584, d. 1654), Sir William Dugdale (b. 1605, d. 1686), Sir John Borough (d. 1643), James Ussher (b. 1581, d. 1656), and Sir William Le Neve (b. 1600?, d. 1661).
The loan list is notable for providing early evidence for the adoption of the Emperor system of classification in the Cotton library, the first references to it appearing in a loan dated 17 January 1639 (f. 4v).
For an edition and analysis of the manuscript, see Tite, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library (2003), pp. 80-89.
Contents:
ff. 1r-17r: Notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton, dating between 1638-1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650-1661.
f. 17v: An address to Sir Thomas Cotton: 'To the Right Worshipfull and his verie good Master, Sir Thomas Cotton, Barronet, at his howse in Westminster, London, be this ddd [given] I preie you'.
f. 16v is blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-004521146 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13 : Notes of manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1411]/040-004521146
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Appendix_XLV/13 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1637
- End Date:
- 1661
- Date Range:
- 1637-1661
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions:
Foliation: ff. 17 (+ 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 12 at the end).
Script: 17th-century script.
Binding: British Library in-house. Brown half-leather binding with the Cottonian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers. Rebound on 18 July 1982.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet: his notes of manuscripts lent from the Cotton library between 1637 and 1669; subsequently incorporated into the collection with the Appendix MSS.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), p. 618.
Tite, Colin G. C., 'The Early Catalogues of the Cottonian Library', The British Library Journal, 6 (1980), 144-57 (pp. 148, 153, 155).
Tite, Colin G. C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: The British Library, 2003), pp. 5, 80-89 [edition].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)