Pepys Library

Name: Pepys Library
Brand: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9781857599534
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And the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Cambridge

Автор: M. E. J. Hughes

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd

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Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene...

Информация за книгата

Автор

M. E. J. Hughes

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2020

страници

EAN

9781857599534

ISBN

1857599535

Enbook ID

09276897

Издател

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd

Теглоt

418

Размери

275 x 200 x 8

Пълно описание

Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and early printed books by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde; a naval collection, reflecting Pepys's role as Secretary to the Admiralty; works by Pepys's contemporaries and members of the Royal Society, including Newton's Principia Mathematica; and an unrivalled array of ephemera - letters, playbills and invitations. Alongside the Pepys Library, Magdalene has an impressive historic collection, housed in the beautiful Old Library rooms. Evolving from a series of major benefactions to the college across nearly 500 years, combined with the books routinely acquired for the use of students and scholars in the past, the Old Library contains medieval manuscripts, incunabula, prints and papers, as well as the ancient records of the college.

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