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The Plantin Press
Magdalene’s copy of the Plantin Press Biblia Polyglotta was donated by alumnus Richard Hollinworth, a key 17th-century figure in Manchester’s religious and literary circles.
Pepys and the Arctic
Professor Ezra Zubrow donates his Arctic Anthropology article tracing a fragment of Lapp culture from the 1670s as it drifts through Europe into Anglo-American society.
Pepys and Dryden
An exchange of letters between Dryden and Pepys, bound in Fables Ancient and Modern, reveals their Cambridge link and Pepys' suggestion behind Dryden’s “Good Parson” translation.
Ferrar Prints pt.3
Magdalene’s Paper Conservation Intern, Puneeta Sharma, used advanced techniques at the Fitzwilliam Museum to clean, repair and line fragile 17th-century Ferrar prints for preservation.
Ferrar Prints pt.4
Magdalene intern Puneeta Sharma reflects on housing the Ferrar Prints and four inspiring conservation visits across Cambridge, finishing with a fun (if slightly chaotic) punting debut.
Ferrar Prints pt.2
This guest post from our conservation intern, Puneeta Sharma, continues the series of posts about the conservation of the Ferra
Ferrar Prints pt.1
Magdalene’s Paper Conservation Intern, Puneeta Sharma, is conserving 561 early 17th-century religious prints collected by Nicolas Ferrar. Work includes cleaning, repair and archival rehousing.
Map of Rome (PL 2990)
A rare 1625 woodcut map of Rome by Maggi and Maupin in the Pepys Library is being digitised for international research and future public access.
Inside the covers: I. A. Richards
Magdalene College Library is conducting a stockcheck of 26,000 books, discovering valuable items like ex-libris books from Professor I. A. Richards. His works revolutionised literary criticism.
Robert Hooke’s ‘Micrographia’ (PL 2116)
Samuel Pepys’ diaries have provided many entries in the Oxford English Dictionary as evidence for the first documented occurrence of a particu
Bindings Workshop
Magdalene College’s Old Library hosted a bookbinding workshop led by Dr Emily Dourish, highlighting binding features that reveal a book's history, materials, and origins, valuable for cataloguing rare books.
Play Quartos
The Pepys and Old Library collections include quartos of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Webster's Dutchesse of Malfy, and other plays, with manuscript annotations from James Duport.