Editing Pepys Library (section)

==The collection==
The most important items in the Library are the six original bound manuscripts of [[Samuel Pepys#Diary|Pepys's diary]] but there are other remarkable holdings, including:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000302200832/http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/collection.html Pepys Library website]</ref>

* Naval records compiled by Pepys when he was Secretary to the Admiralty, including two of the "[[Anthony Roll]]s", illustrating the Royal Navy's ships circa 1546, including the ''[[Mary Rose]]''.
* Pepys' own copy of [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' (1687).
* [[Incunabula]] by [[William Caxton]], [[Wynkyn de Worde]] and [[Richard Pynson]].
* Sixty medieval manuscripts.
* The '[[Pepys Manuscript]]', a late fifteenth-century English [[choirbook]].
* [[Sir Francis Drake]]'s personal [[almanac]].
* The earliest copy of [[John Heywood]]'s ''[[The Play of the Weather]]'', published in 1533 shortly after being performed for Henry VIII.
* Over 1,800 printed [[ballads]]: one of the finest collections in existence<ref>[http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/ English Broadside Ballad Archive] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114221738/http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/ |date=2010-01-14 }}</ref> and an important source for Percy's ''[[Reliques of Ancient English Poetry]]''.

A selection of the most interesting volumes are on display.