Cottonian
形容词 adj.
英 /kɒˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
美 /kɑˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- 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.
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Of or relating to the Cotton Library or texts originally of that library.
— 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.
词源
From Cotton + -ian.
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