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Penny Merriments
Pepys collected unique chapbooks, small popular publications from the 17th century. His collection, including rare titles like ‘The Gentlewomans Delight in Cookery’, offers insight into the period.
Rembrandt Prints
Pepys collected prints, drawings, and etchings, including works by Rembrandt. His collection offers rare early impressions, shedding light on 17th-century print collecting practices.
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.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.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.2
This guest post from our conservation intern, Puneeta Sharma, continues the series of posts about the conservation of the Ferrar prints.
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 particular word. ‘Microscopy’ is one such word and we hope to explore some more of these in the Magdalene Libraries’ blog in the future.