Perpustakaan Cotton

Perpustakaan Cotton atau perpustakaan Cottonian dikoleksi secara pribadi oleh Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631), seorang kolektor barang kuno dan bibliofilia, dan berbasis di Perpustakaan Britania. Pimpinan sarjana pada era tersebut, termasuk Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, and James Ussher, datang untuk menggunakan perpustakaan milik Sir Robert tersebut. Richard James bertugas sebagai pustakawannya.[1]

Injil-Injil Lindisfarne salah satunya dikoleksi oleh Sir Robert Cotton.

Sumber

Referensi

John Aikin. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher; With Notices of the Principal English Men of Letters with Whom They Were Connected. 1812. p. 375.

Sastra

Colin G. C. Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton, Panizzi Lectures 1993, London (1994).
Christopher J. Wright (ed.), Sir Robert Cotton as Collector, London (1997).

Pranala luar

A History of the Cotton Library, British Library
British Library Digitized Manuscripts Online
British Library Images Online
The Cotton Manuscripts Bibliography Diarsipkan 2014-04-19 di Wayback Machine., The University of Sheffield

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[1] John Aikin. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher; With Notices of the Principal English Men of Letters with Whom They Were Connected. 1812. p. 375.