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Cotton's Library

The Many Perils of Preserving History

Cotton's Library( )
Author: Kuhns, Matt
ISBN:978-0-9882505-3-6
Publication Date:Nov 2014
Publisher:Lyon Hall Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

"Cotton's Library" reveals what can happen to a museum-quality collection before it reaches the safety of a museum (and sometimes, even after). It's the story of an embryonic British national library assembled more than 400 years ago by Sir Robert Cotton. Boasting masterpieces of medieval illumination, the sole manuscript sources of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and two of four surviving 1215 copies of Magna Carta as well as many less-famed but still priceless historic...
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