Cotton collection catalogue

E335137

library catalogue manuscript catalogue scholarly inventory

The Cotton collection catalogue is the scholarly inventory that systematically describes and organizes the manuscripts and documents in Sir Robert Cotton’s renowned Cottonian Library, now part of the British Library.

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Label	Occurrences
Cotton collection catalogue canonical	1

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	library catalogue ⓘ manuscript catalogue ⓘ scholarly inventory ⓘ
associatedWith	Cottonian Library ⓘ Sir Robert Cotton ⓘ
createdFor	collection management ⓘ scholarly research ⓘ
describes	documents in the Cottonian Library ⓘ manuscripts in the Cottonian Library ⓘ
descriptiveStandard	physical description of manuscripts ⓘ provenance notes ⓘ scholarly description of contents ⓘ
hasImpactOn	reconstruction of Cottonian Library holdings ⓘ study of British medieval manuscripts ⓘ
hasStructure	shelfmark-based organization ⓘ systematic arrangement ⓘ
hasSubject	archival documents ⓘ codicology ⓘ early modern manuscripts ⓘ medieval manuscripts ⓘ palaeography ⓘ
heldBy	British Library ⓘ
isPartOf	British Library cataloguing tradition ⓘ
language	English ⓘ Latin ⓘ
locatedIn	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
medium	manuscript ⓘ printed finding aid ⓘ
organizes	Cottonian Library documents ⓘ Cottonian Library manuscripts ⓘ
partOfCollection	Cotton collection ⓘ
purpose	documentation of Cotton manuscripts ⓘ intellectual control of Cottonian Library ⓘ
relatedTo	Cottonian Library fire of 1731 ⓘ
relatesTo	Cotton collection of manuscripts ⓘ surface form: British Library Cotton manuscripts
repository	British Library ⓘ
usedBy	historians ⓘ librarians ⓘ manuscript scholars ⓘ textual critics ⓘ

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Subject: Cotton collection catalogue
Description of subject: The Cotton collection catalogue is the scholarly inventory that systematically describes and organizes the manuscripts and documents in Sir Robert Cotton’s renowned Cottonian Library, now part of the British Library.

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Cotton Nero A.x manuscript collection → cataloguedIn → Cotton collection catalogue ⓘ