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  Pepys Library -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The library is housed in a room on the first floor of the Pepys Building inside the college.
Under the terms of the bequest, none of the books may be sold, and no additional ones may be added to the library.
The library is open to the public, but has very restricted opening times (typically between 2:30pm and 4:30pm during the quietest months of the academic year), but it is best to contact the college for current times.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pepys_library.htm   (186 words)

  
 Magdalene College -- Pepys
The Pepys Building houses the famous diaries that Samuel Pepys bequeathed, along with his unique library to College in 1703.
Samuel Pepys made his mark on our national history with his work for the navy, but it is his diaries that have made his name immortal.
The Library is a splendid enrichment of the College.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk /pepys   (142 words)

  
 Samuel Pepys Article, SamuelPepys Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of atailor.
Pepys was a lifelong bibliophile and carefully nurtured his largecollection of books, manuscripts and prints, which totalled exactly 3,000 volumes at his death.
Pepys made elaborate provisions in his will for the preservation of the library, and since 1724 it hasbeen kept intact in Pepys' original bookcases as The Pepys Library atMagdalene College, Cambridge, carefully following Pepys' instruction that "the placing as to heighth be strictly reviewed andwhere found requiring it more nicely adjusted".
www.anoca.org /he/diary/samuel_pepys.html   (861 words)

  
 Samuel Pepys - Metaweb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor.
In 1672 he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, an appointment he held with one interruption of four years at the end of Charles II's reign until the Glorious Revolution when he retired from public life.
Samuel Pepys recorded his daily life for almost ten years in breathtaking honesty, his women, his friends, his dealings are all laid out.
www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Samuel_Pepys   (635 words)

  
 Ancestral Subject Catalogue of Chapbook Themes.
Professor Spufford concluded her analysis of the range of Pepys' chapbooks by stating that they may be taken 'confidently as a well-balanced, and very high, proportion of the chapbooks in circulation in the 1680s, providing always that the under-representation of the small godly books and the practical guides is remembered'.
The secular chapbooks in the Pepys Library that form the focus of the ASC are bound together in two volumes as a distinct collection, separate from the volumes of longer octavos, religious chapbooks, and quarto Vulgaria.
The unwary reader is advised that the Diary of Elizabeth Pepys 'edited' by Dale Spender is a fiction in the manner of the so-called Hitler diaries.
www.davidharrison.org /ascintro.html   (18755 words)

  
 Samuel Pepys
Pepys was imprisoned 1679 in the Tower of London on suspicion of being connected with the Popish Plot.
Pepys entered the Navy Office in 1660 and was secretary to the Admiralty from 1672-79.
Pepys was the son of a working tailor who had come to London from Huntingdonshire, in which county, and in Cambridgeshire, his family had lived for centuries as monastic reeves, rent collectors, farmers, and, more recently, small gentry.
parish.ashtead.org /people/sp.htm   (2002 words)

  
 BBC - History - Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703)
Known for his exhaustive diaries written in code, Samuel Pepys also enjoyed a successful career in public service as naval administrator and Britain's first ever secretary of the Admiralty, Member of Parliament and President of the Royal Society.
Pepys' road to success was not an obvious one.
Pepys was a confidante of the two kings whom he served - Charles II and James II.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/pepys_samuel.shtml   (337 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Samuel Pepys : The Unequalled Self (Vintage): Books: Claire Tomalin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pepys, who as a teenager witnessed the execution of Charles I and who was an admirer of Cromwell, was a great believer in meritocracy.
Pepys is a diarist of tremendous curiosity who is capable of recording his own intimate acts with a certain kind of objective impersonality.
At times she lets Pepys speak for himself, through excerpts from his diary and letters, while at other times she recounts events in a seamless narrative fashion that, from reading the diary alone, would be more opaque and even somewhat choppy.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375725539?v=glance   (3281 words)

  
 Samuel Peyps and the Pepys Library
Pepys Building houses the famous diaries that Samuel Pepys
bequeathed, along with his unique library, to College in 1703.
Located in Second Court, the Pepys Building is the principal ornament of the College and of considerable architectural interest.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk /pepys/contents.html   (145 words)

  
 Pepys Library set excl Ballads, 085991416X, £1000.00/$1795.00, 0pp, 1994
Samuel Pepys's great collection is the finest surviving seventeenth-century library and one of the major libraries of the world, despite its relatively modest size.
Pepys collected with passion and discrimination to serve his wide-ranging, primarily secular, interests.
His library of some 3,000 volumes is the earliest English private gentleman's library to survive intact.
www.boydell.co.uk /5991416X.HTM   (254 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pepys bequeathed his library of 3000 books and manuscripts to Magadalene College, Cambridge, where he had been a student.
The most common of these is H B Wheatley (ed), The diary of Samuel Pepys (10 volumes), London, 1893-9.
This is part of a large project by the University of Pennsylvania Library to publish online a wide range of out-of-copyright books.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk /MOLsite/exhibits/pepys/pages/links.asp   (467 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Pepys is an extremly important part of English history as he was witness to the restoration of the king after the death of Cromwell as well as the plague and the fire of London.
I've been listening to these diaries on the train, and they're wonderful, surprisingly contemporary for a guy who was writing around the time of the Great Fire of London, now commemorated by the Monument.
Samuel Pepys is a civil servant, having to wade through the red tape and intrigues of his role in the navy.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679642218   (902 words)

  
 Samuel Pepys - Art History Online Reference and Guide
He was a loyal supporter of James II, and when James fled the country at the end of 1688, Pepys career also came to an end.
Pepys' character seems encapsulated in his Latin motto mens cujusque is est quisque, which can be translated as "The Mind is the Man".
Richard Ollard 's book was first published in 1974 at approximately the same time as the Latham and Matthew's text and benefits from the author's deep knowledge of Restoration politics.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Pepys   (1984 words)

  
 Pepys Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It contains 3000 books preserved in their original bookcases and organised by size as Pepys had catalogued them.
Under the terms of the bequest, none of the books can be sold and no new books may be added to the library.
A selection of the most interesting volumes are on display, including Pepys' diaries with their descriptions of the Great Fire of London and illustrated catalogues of the British Navy compiled by Pepys when he was Secretary to the Admiralty.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pepys_library.html   (214 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The Anthony roll of Henry VIII's navy : Pepys Library 2991 and British Library additional MS 22047 ...
Find in a Library: The Anthony roll of Henry VIII's navy : Pepys Library 2991 and British Library additional MS 22047 with related documents
The Anthony roll of Henry VIII's navy : Pepys Library 2991 and British Library additional MS 22047 with related documents
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worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/f1e7d2238955fb13a19afeb4da09e526.html   (112 words)

  
 Medium Aevum: Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, vol. 5.i: Manuscripts (Medieval). (book ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Medium Aevum: Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, vol.
The eighth published volume of this catalogue series describes the thirty-eight pre-1500 manuscripts that were acquired by Pepys from various seventeenth-century sources (this number does not include the mediaeval fragments in Pepys's Calligraphical Collection, already described in Volume IV).
And Volume V.i also describes Magdalene College Old Library, MS F. 4.34 (not part of the Pepys Library but, together with MS 2124, originally forming the notable two-volume set of Caxton's English Ovid).
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:16020823&...   (222 words)

  
 Order Samuel Pepys
The wonder of it for me is, that a woman who has so immersed herself into Pepys' life as to walk where he walked and to read the minutia of his bank account records, has also found time in her life to write other biographies!
A Pepys Anthology : Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys : The Saviour of the Navy, 1683-1689
www.illyria.com /books_pepys.html   (686 words)

  
 EMC - The Early Modern Center
Thanks go to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for granting us unprecedented permission to archive their ballad holding.
The Pepys ballads became the first priority of the EMC’s Ballad Archive because full access to these ballads has until now been extremely limited.
Due to their fragility, the Pepys Library has restricted access to the originals.
emc.english.ucsb.edu /ballad_project   (355 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge V: Manuscripts, Ii. Modern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge V: Manuscripts, Ii.
Modern Manuscriptscovers all post-medieval MSS in the Library, describing the contents of nearly 250 volumes, ranging from the great naval collections to the individual letters and notes.
It includes some of the best known items in the Library (the Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's navy; the Maitland poems, the Diary itself), as well as a wide variety of MSS hitherto neglected for want of a complete catalogue.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0859910784   (305 words)

  
 Cat Pepys Library Sup I Census Bks, 1843840049, £95.00/$190.00, 396 2004
Pepys's library has been, as he directed, preserved intact at his old Cambridge college since 1724.
Extensive indexes have been provided for authors and ancillary contributors, subjects, printers and places of publication, and references which reflect Pepys himself and his bibliophilism.
An important and significant reference work, which is a worthy supplement to the previous published volumes describing Pepys's magnificent and important library.
www.boydell.co.uk /43840049.HTM   (252 words)

  
 Manuscript Sources of English Secular Song, 1630—1665
One of three part-books, the companion of Bodleian Library, MS Mus.
The bass part for some of the songs is bound in with Wode’s Psalter in Edinburgh University Library, MS LA.III.483.
With an Introduction by Albert Ehrman (London: Maggs Brothers, for The Broxbourne Library, 1956), pp.
ace.acadiau.ca /score/GJC/song-ms.htm   (4362 words)

  
 Backstage - An RSLP funded Theatre Collections database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Summary of holdings: The library is Samuel Pepys's personal collection, housed in the original book presses and closed on his death in 1703.
Latham and William Matthews, 11 volumes 1970-83) and his collection of early English plays (some 60 items), together with much else of naval, paleographic, historical and pictorial importance, all of which is described in the printed catalogue.
Catalogues and guides: "The Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge", R. Latham (gen. ed.), (11 vols.) Boydell & Brewer, 1980-94.
www.backstage.ac.uk /cld2/directory_view?id=1001   (137 words)

  
 - SHOP.COM
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library) (Hardcover)
Diary entries by the tailor s son who rose up through the royal ranks describe his experiences in London from 1660 to 1669, and explore the political and cultural scene during the Restoration, the Plague, and the Great Fire of London.
Author: Pepys, Samuel/ Le Gallienne, Richard (EDT)/ Stevenson, Robert Louis (INT)/ Le Gallienne, Richard.
www.shop.com /op/aprod-p30487123   (222 words)

  
 Gentyll manly Cokere. Culinary Recipes from MS Pepys 1047.
The title of this new edition of MS Pepys 1047 is derived from the opening line of the section of the MS which contains the culinary recipes:
For to stew heryng - herring stewed with herbs and currants and served in a mustard ale sauce.
A book of medieval refinements, recipes and remedies from a manuscript in Samuel Pepys' library.
www.godecookery.com /pepys/pepys.htm   (749 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003019512   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Table of contents for Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Pepys Library Catalogs, Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 Library Catalogs
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019512.html   (82 words)

  
 diary --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
It is far more than an ordinary record of its writer's thoughts and actions; it is a supreme work of art, revealing...
Historians owe most of their knowledge of the London of the 1660s to Samuel Pepys, England's greatest diarist (see Diary).
Text of the diary of the Tennessee schoolgirl Alice Williamson describing life during the American Civil War.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273990   (798 words)

  
 Manuscript Studies: Bibliography (Early Printed Books)
[The British Library has produced a short-title catalogue covering all books printed anywhere in Europe before 1500 (the database, which is still growing, currently includes some 28,000 items, representing the incunabular holdings of some 3,000 libraries), with facsimiles (thus "illustrated" catalogue) of title pages and a selection of other pages.
Sydney: Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1966.
Incunabula in the Libraries of the University of London: A Hand-list
www.arts.ualberta.ca /sreimer/ms-course/bibliog/bib-bkc.htm   (2366 words)

  
 Catalogue Of The Pepys Library At Magdalene College Cambridge Volume 3 Prints And Drawings Part 2 Portraits [Only] - ...
Catalogue Of The Pepys Library At Magdalene College Cambridge Volume 3 Prints And Drawings Part 2 Portraits [Only] - Chamberlain, Eric
Title: Catalogue Of The Pepys Library At Magdalene College Cambridge Volume 3 Prints And Drawings Part 2 Portraits [Only]
Catalogue of portraits collected by Pepys, numbering some 2000.
www.eastleach-book.co.uk /si/7149.html   (58 words)

  
 Catalogue of the Pepys Library, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume II - Ballads. Part i: Catalogue. Compiled by ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Catalogue of the Pepys Library, at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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