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T1 The Extent of Fire Damage to Middle English Prose in the Cotton Library
T2 El alcance del daño por fuego en la prosa en inglés medio de la biblioteca Cotton
A1 Honkapohja, Alpo
K1 Middle English
K1 Index of Middle English Prose
K1 Manuscript Studies
K1 Cotton library
K1 bibliography
AB The library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1-1631) has been described as the most impor-tant collection of manuscripts assembled by a single person in Britain. The collection waspartly destroyed in a library fire in 1731. While the Cotton collection has been celebrated(and the damage it suffered lamented) for its Old English manuscripts, the extent of firedamage to Middle English prose within the collection has not been systematically explored.This article aims to address this gap by conducting a comprehensive comparison of surviv-ing manuscripts which are now part of the Cotton collection in the British Library withsurviving pre- and post-fire catalogues, book lists and reports of Cotton’s manuscripts. Theinvestigation was undertaken during the compilation of an Index of Middle English Prose(IMEP) volume dedicated to the Cotton collection.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34487
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34487
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-jul-2024