Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/71 – 6 May 1631) of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England, was a...
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The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631)...
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in 1731, and a few are kept in other libraries and collections. Robert Bruce Cotton organized his library in a room 26 feet (7.9 m) long by six feet...
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manuscripts by Robert Bruce Cotton Cotton (album) Cotton (series), a video game series Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, the first game in the series Cotton Hill...
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1963, when the first volume of her "extravagant biography" of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published (the second volume is unpublished). Two volumes of...
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John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey. A popular tradition...
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matters of antiquarian interest. Members included William Camden, Sir Robert Cotton, John Stow, William Lambarde, Richard Carew and others. This body existed...
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were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, John Selden compiled a catalogue: Marmora Arundelliana with the...
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collection. In the 1960s she worked on the coins in the collection of Robert Bruce Cotton, in collaboration with Michael Dolley and Christopher Blunt. It was...
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Bannerets was a French knighthood mentioned in a biography of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1570-1631) by Thomas Smith.[not specific enough to...
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collectors and scholars included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and Humfrey Wanley. Old English dictionaries and references were...
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John Carter Brown Boudewijn Büch Anthony Collins George Cosmatos Robert Bruce Cotton Jules Desnoyers Joseph W. Drexel Alexandre Dumas, père Umberto Eco...
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what he may do", in his De iure majestatis. Robert Bruce Cotton quoted Bodin on the value of money; Robert Burton on politics in the Anatomy of Melancholy...
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Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British diplomat, journalist, author, and secret agent. His 1932...
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without exception".: 122 Also, possibly inspiring a trope, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton organized his library with the placement of busts of ancient Romans...
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As a result, the trial was dubbed the "Cotton Club" murder trial. Heeding the advice of his attorney Robert Shapiro, Evans refused to testify during...
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Cleopatra Glossaries (category Cotton Library)
herself: they are so named because when kept in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, the volume containing them was stored in a bookcase below a bust...
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among the manuscripts collected by the early 17th-century antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton, now conserved in the British Library in London. Geoffrey of Wells...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (category Cotton Library)
academic circles as Cotton Nero A.x., following a naming system used by one of its owners, the 16th century Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, a collector of Medieval...
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the possession of Robert Bruce Cotton, the famous English antiquary, at which point it was rebound, with his arms on the cover. Cotton lent the manuscript...
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and in 1612 he was called to the bar. His earliest patron was Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, the antiquary, who seems to have employed him to copy and summarise...
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The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the...
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Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonist Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1571 – 1631), antiquary and political writer...
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Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician, attorney, and former Army officer serving as the junior United States senator from...
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British monarchs, was destroyed by fire in 1698. The Cotton library owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was partly destroyed in a house fire in 1731 resulting...
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poet and Dean of St Paul's (born 1572) May 6 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary and founder of Cotton Library (born 1570) May 25 – Samuel Harsnett...
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designation is "British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.XV" because it was one of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton library in the middle of the...
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1571–1631) Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet (1594–1662) Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1621–1702) Sir John Cotton, 4th...
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(1556–1607), clergyman and translator William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist...
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from James. James had already been introduced to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; he soon became Cotton's librarian, and the lists of contents prefixed to many...
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