Ashburnham House is an extended seventeenth-century house on Little Dean's Yard in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, which since 1882 has been part...
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Cotton library (redirect from Ashburnham House fire)
as a fire risk; and then to Ashburnham House, a little west of the Palace of Westminster. From 1707 the library also housed the Old Royal Library (now...
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Earl of Ashburnham (pronounced "Ash-burn-am"), of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for John...
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Ashburnham Place is an English country house, now used as a Christian conference and prayer centre, five miles west of Battle, East Sussex. It was one...
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In 1731, the manuscript was damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London, which was housing Sir Robert Cotton's collection of medieval...
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Ashburnham may refer to: Ashburnham, East Sussex, England Ashburnham Place, a country house in that village, the ancestral home of the Ashburnham family...
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Westminster School (section House of Commons gallery)
is also used, and the three Eton Fives courts in Ashburnham Garden, the garden behind Ashburnham House. Westminster played in the first school cricket...
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private preparatory boarding school. Ashburnham contains the census-designated place of South Ashburnham. Ashburnham was first settled by Europeans in 1736...
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Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham (8 April 1855 – 12 May 1924) was a British Army officer and peer, the last Earl of Ashburnham. Thomas Ashburnham was...
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modern date. Version A, Cotton Otho B.xi was badly damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731 but the body of the text survives in a transcript made by the...
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almost completely destroyed in the 1731 fire at Ashburnham House, where the Cotton Library was housed. Of the original 34 leaves, seven remain, ff. 39–47...
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John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, PC (30 October 1724 – 8 April 1812), styled Viscount St Asaph from 1730 to 1737, was a British peer and courtier...
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House Arnos Grove House Arundel House Ashburnham House Aubrey House Avery Hill Ballards, Coombe Bath House, Piccadilly Beaufort House Bedford House,...
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second son of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham, and his wife, Bridget Vaughan, daughter of Walter Vaughan of Porthamel House, Brecon, South Wales...
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Westminster Abbey (category Burial sites of the House of Tudor)
own household, separate from the monks, on the site of present-day Ashburnham House in Little Dean's Yard (now also part of Westminster School). The nave...
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William Ashburnham (c. 1604–1679) was an English army officer, landowner and MP. William Ashburnham was the younger brother of John Ashburnham, who was...
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The Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334, also known as the Tours Pentateuch and the Codex Turonensis)...
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xii text, lasted until 1731, when it was destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House. Before its destruction, this version had been transcribed and annotated;...
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coeducational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States. It serves approximately 400 students in...
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England, is "burned down entirely" by a fire. October 23 – A fire at Ashburnham House in Westminster destroys 114 irreplaceable manuscripts (including a...
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1866) was an English peer. Born Mr Sydney Seymore Hyde Stanhope at Ashburnham House in Westminster, London, Stanhope was the second son of Leicester Stanhope...
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was missing its beginning and ending) was destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House that also damaged and destroyed several other works in the Cotton library...
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evidence of this. It may have been Cotton Otho A.x, destroyed in the Ashburnham House fire of October 1731, though the catalogues by Humfrey Wanley and Franciscus...
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unpublished, were burned when a fire broke out in the Cotton library at Ashburnham House on 23 October 1731. Luckily, the only surviving manuscript of Beowulf...
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John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham (15 January 1656 – 21 January 1710) was an English landowner and politician. Ashburnham was the son of William Ashburnham...
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in St. James's Palace and his first care was the royal library in Ashburnham House. He worked to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition....
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Ine of Wessex (category House of Wessex)
xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76.2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction...
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George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA (25 December 1760 – 27 October 1830) was a British peer. He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham...
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is now covered by the Houses of Parliament. The collection escaped relatively lightly in the fire of 1731 at Ashburnham House, to which the collections...
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manuscript, by now detached, was burned in the Cotton library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731. The keeper of the collection, John Elphinstone (or his assistant...
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