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]
Sumber
[sunting | sunting sumber]Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ 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
[sunting | sunting sumber]- 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
[sunting | sunting sumber]- 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