The project has enabled Pepys Library staff to identify some of the printed book fragments by comparing them with copies of books already online.

Mrs Sutherland, special collections librarian, said: "It's unusual to see manuscript fragments deliberately arranged and pasted into an album by their original owner - they are often stored loose in boxes - so Samuel Pepys's collection offers something a bit different in this area of research."

"He had a lasting fascination with handwriting and printing" and as a clerk [a 17th Century civil servant], "writing was crucial to his everyday life", according to Pepys Librarian Jane Hughes.

The manuscripts can be seen at the Fragmentarium Digital Laboratory - [fragmentarium.ms]

[www.bbc.co.uk]

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