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Library of Robert Cotton, MS 230 †

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A manuscript listed as ‘Irishe physique’ in Robert Cotton's library catalogue of manuscripts (BL, Harleian 6018). Engl. physick referred to medicine, but in the retained French spelling physique it could mean ‘natural philosophy’. The manuscript has not been identified and may have been lost.

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Identifiers

Type

Irish medicine and medical writing

Provenance and related aspects

Origin, provenance

Provenance: Cotton libraryCotton library

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Cotton (Robert)

(1570/71–1631)

Sir Robert Bruce, 1st baronet, of Connington Hall, was an English politician, antiquary and collector of manuscripts, who established the Cotton library.

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Hands, scribes

Codicological information

State of existence

lost

Irish manuscripts

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Tite, Colin G. C., “’Lost or stolen or strayed’: a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cottonian library”, The British Library Journal 18 (1992): 107–147.

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web page identifiers

page name: Library of Robert Cotton, MS 230

page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Library_of_Robert_Cotton,_MS_230
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/48005
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=48005
page ID: 48005
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=48005

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

July 2020, last updated: July 2022