A catalogue of the manuscripts in the Cottonian Library. To which are added, many emendations and additions. With an appendix, containing an account of the damage sustained by the fire in 1731; and also a catalogue of the charters preserved in the same library.
Contributors: Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803.; Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, bart, 1571-1631.
Publisher: Printed for S. Hooper, No 25, Ludgate Hill
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Notes: The dedication is to Thomas Astle, Esq., archivist and book collector, to whom the author was indebted for the manuscripts from which this work was printed.

The fire of 1731 occurred in the rooms in Ashburnham House where the Royal and Cottonian libraries were housed. Before the fire there were 958 volumes; after there were 746 complete volumes and 98 defective.