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Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Supplementary Series, Volume II: Collections, I: Maritime, Religious, Political. Ed. by C. S. Knighton. (book review)
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posted on 2019-08-27, 15:44 authored by Kate LovemanAt the close of the seventeenth century Samuel Pepys poured much of his energy and his
wealth into assembling his private library. Such a library, he believed, should contain ‘the
greatest diversity of Subjects & Stiles (from the most solemn & polite down to the most
Vulgar) ... as the Owner’s Reading will bear’.1 On his death in 1703, he left his library to his
old college, Magdalene in Cambridge, with instructions that its order be preserved for
posterity.
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Citation
The Library, Volume 20, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 569–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/library/20.4.569Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of ArtsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)