Cotton, John

COTTON, John, the author of a treatise on music, dating from the latter part of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. There exist five copies in MS., at Leipzig, Paris, Antwerp, the Vatican Library, and two at Vienna. A sixth copy, used by Gerbert, who published the treatise in 1784, was destroyed in the fire at St. Blasien in 1768. In the Paris and Antwerp copies the authorship is ascribed to Cotton or Cottonius, two of the others...