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Magdalene Libraries @magdlibs
14 Feb 2025
Magdalene College Library (New Library) has moved to Instagram, please follow us here: instagram.com/magdlibs/
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New blog post: The Pontifex Collection, featuring first editions of Charles Dickens: magdlibs.com/2025/01/21/the-… #camlibs #speccolls

The Pontifex Collection

We are pleased to announce that the cataloguing of the Pontifex collection has been completed, and the book titles are now available to view on the University of Cambridge’s online library catalogu…

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New Blog post about former Pepys Librarian Richard Ladborough, by our Graduate Trainee Librarian Connor: tinyurl.com/5n97jxsk #camlibs #speccolls
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Following a period of closure preparing for refurbishment to the Pepys Building, Pepys Library books are now accessible under alternative arrangements for visiting academic researchers by appointment. 1/2
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Regrettably, the Pepys Library remains completely closed for general visits and group tours due to the refurbishment project. For visits of this nature, we invite you to check the College website for details of reopening. 2/2
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If you happen to be in Paris in the next few months, check out the Ribera exhibition at the Petit Palais - where a reproduction of the Pepys Library's huge Map of Rome dating from 1625 is being displayed. 1/2
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25 Oct 2024
Dès le 5 novembre, découvrez les œuvres de l’héritier terrible du Caravage, Jusepe de Ribera !
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A digitised version of the map can be seen on the website of the National Gallery of Art, Washington : Maggi-Maupin, Disegno nuovo di Roma moderna 2/2
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13 Nov 2024
Join us for a special evening celebrating mountaineering legend Dorothy Pilley! Writer Dan Richards will share stories of her adventurous life and legacy as a pioneering figure in women’s alpinism. 🏔️ 19 Nov, 5:15 PM, Magdalene College. Free, all welcome! magd.cam.ac.uk/event/climbin…
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The Pepys Library is now closed to the public for renovation works to the building. For further information about the project, please see the College website: magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys-restora… #camlibs #speccolls
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New blog post to announce the cataloguing of prints collected by the Ferrar family of Little Gidding: magdlibs.com/2024/08/13/litt… #camlibs #speccolls

Little Gidding and the Gospel Harmonies

Little Gidding was an Anglican religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) in Huntingdonshire in 1625. Made up of Ferrar’s extended family and servants, the community gained atte…

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Check out our new online exhibition on the Play Quartos in the Pepys Library and Old Library. The exhibition is curated by our Graduate Trainee. magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/virtual… #speccolls
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New blog post: Pepys and horses, including a nod to the #Olympics📷 with a look at some seventeenth-century vaulting. magdlibs.com/2024/07/26/pepy…… #speccolls #camlibs

Pepys and Horses

Pepys and Horses In the seventeenth century, horses were essential for travel and transport. Horses carried farm produce to and from market for agricultural workers, while the middle to upper ranks…

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22 Jul 2024
Samuel Pepys wrote a lot about clothes in his famous diary but it stopped halfway through his life. So historian @MarloAvidon studied Pepys’ private collection of fashion prints at @magdalenealumni. She discovered a guilty pleasure and much more. cam.ac.uk/stories/samuel-pep…

Pepys’ guilty pleasure

A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry.

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22 Jul 2024
Engravings reveal Pepys' lifelong love of fashion bbc.in/4bOE96J

Samuel Pepys' life-long fashion fascination - Cambridge study

The diarist's fashion print collection reveals his anxiety about dressing appropriately, says expert.

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The Pepys Library makes headlines today, as Marlo Avidon's research sheds light on its extensive collection of fashion prints. We'll be reposting news stories throughout the day. 1/2
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21 Jul 2024
Samuel Pepys: diarist, administrator … budding fashionista dlvr.it/T9twWT
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Avidon's article, "‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys" in the journal "The Seventeenth Century", can be read via this link: doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.202… 2/2

‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel...

Within the library of the famed diarist Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) at Magdalene College, Cambridge sits one of the largest surviving bound collections of seventeenth-century French fashion prints. Co...

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A lovely item! Magdalene also has one of these from the collection of books, papers and other treasures left to the Old Library by Ivor Richards and Dorothy Pilley.
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2 Jul 2024
Dorothy Pilley's stereoscopic viewer for tonight's book launch of Climbing Days. It's a folding one that's incredibly compact - thankfully we've also got some larger photos (and a couple of ice axes) on display. @canongatebooks @Dan_Zep
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We are pleased to announce the cataloguing of the Old Library's Van de Weyer albums - a collection of portrait prints, correspondence and autographs collected by Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer (1802-1874), former Prime Minister of Belgium. More info here: magdlibs.com/2024/06/25/jean…

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Depicted in the image is the Duke of Wellington, one of Van de Weyer's correspondents.
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New blog post by our Library Graduate Trainee: James Duport and Play Quartos in the Old Library. The blog highlights an early printed copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet, complete with handwritten stage directions. magdlibs.com/2024/06/11/jame… #camlibs #speccolls
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