Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume 4 : Music, Maps, and Calligraphy. [ Volume IV ]
by Latham, R
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- Hardcover
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- Fine in a dustwrapper with some marking and staining to the front panel and spine
- ISBN 10
- 0859912469
- ISBN 13
- 9780859912464
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About This Item
D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, first edition, 1989. Cloth, gilt cover device, folio,. ix, 26, 67, xii, 45 pp. The subjects covered in this volume represent three of Pepys's strongest interests. (1) The music collection consists of seventy volumes, chiefly of vocal and instrumental music representative of the tastes and interests of the amateur. It ranges from psalm-books to operas, and the composers inlude Henry Lawes, Finger, Grabu, A. Scarlatti and Purcell. Pepys was a musician as well as a music lover, and collected treatises on the subject of musical theory (e.g. by Mersenne and Kircher) and items of historical interest. (2) The voluminous map collection, with only few exceptions, was a by-product of Pepys's work at the Admiralty and was made for use. Hence its concentration on material related to navigation. Contained in a variety of formats — as separate maps and charts, atlases, books of travel and topography, and manuscript journals of naval commanders — its size and comprehensiveness make it unique among English collections of the period. It includes examples of the work of the great mapmakers, English and foreign, of the 17th century. (3) The 'Calligraphicall Collection' includes fragments of medieval manuscript (some carrying comments by Humfrey Wanley) and of early printed books, followed by an extensive gathering of representative pages from the engraved copybooks published by the writing masters of England, France, Holland, Spain and Italy in the 17th century Fine in a dustwrapper with some marking and staining to the front panel and spine.
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- Title
- Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume 4 : Music, Maps, and Calligraphy. [ Volume IV ]
- Author
- Latham, R
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover device, folio,
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a dustwrapper with some marking and staining to the front panel and spine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0859912469
- ISBN 13
- 9780859912464
- Publisher
- D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, first edition, 1989
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- ix, 26, 67, xii, 45 pp
- Keywords
- Latham, R. Pepys Library at Magdalene College Music, Maps, and Calligraphy 0859912469
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music & Musicians (Bibliographies);
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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