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It was that known as the Cottonian Genesis, which was brought over by two Greek
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. 1899
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A MS. in French: "La Reule des femmes religieuses et recluses," disappeared in the fire of the Cottonian Library.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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MSS. in the Cottonian Library, British Museum, with an Introduction,
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_ -- In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. marked Vespasian F.
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A second copy of the Latin version was formerly in the Cottonian collection
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William the Conqueror; and the Chronicles of Osney Abbey, preserved in the Cottonian library, even ascertain the precise date of this great baron's undertaking, viz. A.D.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 Various
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In the early ages of our Navy there was a distinct rating, called "Grummett," on board each man-of-war, and he was generally, as may be seen in the Cottonian MSS., placed after the "maryners and gonners."
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Cottonian MS. Galba E iii.fo. 177, et seq.; this account is erroneously attributed in the catalogue to Eleanor, consort of Edward I.
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He has met with two notices on the subject in passages of Cottonian manuscripts, and would be glad of farther information.
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Richard James (Sir Robert Cotton's librarian), who wrote on the fly-leaves of all the MSS. in the Cottonian Library a note of their respective contents, and who is implicitly followed by Smith.
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