Cottonian

English Etymology From en Cotton ian. Pronunciation en /kɒˈtəʊ.ni.ən/ RP en /kɑˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ GA en əʊniən 4 Adjective - Of or relating to Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington (1571–1631), antiquarian and bibliophile whose Cotton library became the basis of the British Library. Of or relating to the Cotton Library or texts originally of that library. en A.J. Wyatt and R.W. Chambers 1914 1968 Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment Cambridge Cambridge University Press x Twenty-six years later occurred the disastrous fire in which so many of the Cottonian MSS. were either destroyed or, as the Beowulf MS., damaged. en eponyms