The Perspective of the Medieval Scribe

This unique double exhibition of manuscripts from the Magdalene collections, taking place in the iconic Pepys Library and the Stirling Prize-winning Robert Cripps Gallery, reveals medieval perspectives on the physical world, on other worlds, and on the creative potential of image and word with the natural world, with music and with science.

The Pepys Building houses the Library of Samuel Pepys, whose collection of manuscripts and fragments of medieval calligraphy, specially displayed for this exhibition, were as famous in his own day as they are now. In dialogue with these treasures, and on view in the adjacent Robert Cripps Gallery, a range of rarely-displayed secular and devotional manuscripts from the Magdalene College Old Library will contribute their own perspectives, from scientific representations of the physical universe to apocalyptic vision.

In conjunction with the Magdalene College Triennial Festival 2024: Perspectives

Opening Times

29 January - 24 February 2024

Open: 14:00 - 16:00 Monday - Saturday
Closed: Sunday

Information for Visitors

• to arrange access to the exhibition please call into the Porters’ Lodge on Magdalene Street
• entrance will be to the Gallery and Pepys Library only
• visitors are requested not to enter other parts of the New Library