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Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2159 words) |
 | Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor. |
| Pepys made detailed provisions in his will for the preservation of his book collection, and when his nephew and heir John Jackson died in 1723, it was transferred intact to the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it can still be seen. |
| Arthur Bryant, Pepys — The Saviour of the Navy 1683–1689. |
| Magdalene College -- Samuel Pepys (1105 words) |
| Pepys was a boy of ability and, after a short spell during the Civil War at the grammar school in Huntingdon, he was sent to St Paul's School and thence, with a leaving Exhibition, to Magdalene in 1651. |
| Pepys and his library clerk devised a great three-volumed catalogue; collated Pepysian copies with those in other collections; adorned volume upon volume with exquisite title pages written calligraphically by assistants; pasted prints into their guard-books; and inserted indexes and lists of contents. |
| It is still housed in the glazed bookcases that Pepys had had made for it by dockyard joiners over the years, and still arranged in the order in which he and his heir had left it. |
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