cottonianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɒˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /kɑˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
• 韻: -əʊniən

形容詞

Cottonian (not comparable)

1. 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.
2. Of or relating to the Cotton Library or texts originally of that library.
   • 1914, A.J. Wyatt and R.W. Chambers, Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 1968, page 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.