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Pepys Library

Regarded as the jewel in the crown of Magdalene College, the Pepys Library is a rare example of a 17th-century private library.

The Library is open to the public and visiting scholars and houses Samuel Pepys’s original diaries. It is one of the most significant collections of books, manuscripts, documents and prints acquired by any private individual.

Visit the treasures of the library collected over Pepys’s lifetime still preserved in the original oak bookcases designed by Pepys in 1666.