Editing Samuel Pepys (section)

==Pepys Library==
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[[File:PepysLibraryCambridge.jpg|thumb|The [[Pepys Library|Pepys Building]] of [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]]]]
[[File:Pepys Library c1870.jpg|thumb|Pepys Library {{circa|1870}}]]

Pepys was a lifelong [[bibliophile]] and carefully nurtured his large collection of books, manuscripts, and prints. At his death, there were more than 3,000 volumes, including the diary, all carefully catalogued and indexed; they form one of the most important surviving 17th-century private [[library|libraries]]. The most important items in the Library are the six original bound manuscripts of Pepys' diary, but there are other remarkable holdings, including:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/collection.html|title=Pepys Library Website|work=cam.ac.uk|access-date=17 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000302200832/http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/collection.html|archive-date=2 March 2000}}</ref>
* [[Incunabula]] by [[William Caxton]], [[Wynkyn de Worde]], and [[Richard Pynson]]
* Sixty medieval manuscripts
* The ''[[Pepys Manuscript]]'', a late-15th-century English [[choirbook]]
* Naval records such as two of the '[[Anthony Roll]]s', illustrating the Royal Navy's ships {{circa|1546}}, including the ''[[Mary Rose]]''
* [[Sir Francis Drake]]'s personal [[almanac]]
* Over 1,800 printed [[ballads]], one of the finest collections in existence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/|title=UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive|work=ucsb.edu|access-date=17 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114221738/http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/|archive-date=14 January 2010}}</ref>

Pepys made detailed provisions in his will for the preservation of his book collection. His nephew and heir John Jackson died in 1723, when it was transferred intact to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it can be seen in the [[Pepys Library]]. The bequest included all the original bookcases and his elaborate instructions that placement of the books "be strictly reviewed and, where found requiring it, more nicely adjusted".

The Ephemera Society emblem uses Pepys' portrait and characterizes him as "the first general ephemerist."<ref>[http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/about.html About the Ephemera Society] The Ephemera Society.</ref> Two large albums of [[ephemera]] saved by Pepys are in his library.