Details of provenance, owner, donor or other name
Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce (1571-1631);
see DNB; Kevin M. Sharpe, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1979); Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library 1696 = Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecæ Cottonianæ, ed. C. G. C. Tite, introductory essays translated by Godfrey E. Turton (Cambridge, 1984); C. G. C. Tite, The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton, Panizzi Lectures, The British Library, 1993 (London, 1994); Graham Parry, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquaries of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1995), chapter 3; Sir Robert Cotton as Collector, ed. C. J. Wright (London, 1997); Thomas N. Hall, `Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631)', in Pre-Nineteenth-century British Book- collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 213 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1999), 57-69.
♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1571 to 1631. Period: 16th century to 17th century.
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