Cotton library
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The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP. The collection of books and materials Sir Robert
The Lindisfarne Gospels are one example of the valuable and prestigious works collected by Sir Robert Cotton. They are now in the British Library.
The Cotton Genesis was badly damaged in the Ashburnam House fire.
Pearl Manuscript
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The Pearl Manuscript, also known as the Gawain manuscript, is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century. It is one
The Green Knight at Camelot, folio 94v, and the beginning of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, folio 95r
The tempting of Sir Gawain by Bertilak's wife, folio 129r
The dreamer sees the maiden, folio 42r.
Pearl's dreamer sleeps, folio 41r.