Bibliotheca Pepysiana : a descriptive catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys.

A four-volume catalogue, digitally reprinted from the 1914 editon, containing a list and descriptions of items in the library of Samuel Pepys. Part I is a bibliography of 114 volumes classified by Pepys as the 'Sea' manuscripts. They consist mainly of official documents penned by retiring officials of Pepys's own time and documents brought together to serve as material for a projected History of the Navy. These include the naval discourses of Monson, Hollond and Slyngesbie, Mountgomery's Book of the Navy, Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightery, and Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture. Also included are books and papers, not necessarily dealing with naval history, that Pepys found of interest, and a subject and personal name index. Part II contains a general introduction to the library and its history, including extracts from Pepys's diary, will and accounts. It lists the early printed books including several liturgical books in the Sarum Rite and 1557 editions of Malory's La morte d'Arthur and the works of Thomas More. It also includes an index of printers. Part III is a catalogue of mainly Mediaeval Manuscripts and includes a brief list of these by title and an index of contents. Part IV, a bibliography of Pepys's books on stenography, also contains an alphabetical list of the authors of various methods of shorthand together with a similar list for works not found in the collection at its close in March 1695. A list of abbreviations comes before the introduction.