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Exeter and Book
The Exeter Book contains a series of poems entitled Christ, sectioned into Christ I, Christ II and Christ III.
The Exeter Domesday Book records that, at the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, the site was held ( probably by lease from the Abbey ) by one Uluert, and by Roger de Corcella at the time of the survey in 1086.
* Slæpwerigne " sleep-weary " occurs exactly once in the old-English corpus, the Exeter Book.
He was a bibliophile, and collected many manuscripts ; some of these he gave to the cathedral library, including a famous manuscript of poetry, the Exeter Book.
He gave an important manuscript of Old English poetry, the Exeter Book, to the cathedral library in 1072.
Contained in the Exeter Book are a number of poems showing of all the principal types of poems composed in Old English.
Along with the Exeter Book, he also gave a number of other manuscripts and books to the cathedral upon his death.
Besides the Exeter Book and the Leofric Missal, Leofric's own copy of the Rule of Chrodegang also survives, although it is no longer at Exeter.
In all, about 20 of the manuscripts gifted by Leofric can be identified and are still extant, and only two remain at Exeter – including the Exeter Book.
The most important manuscripts are the four great poetical codices of the late 10th and early 11th centuries, known as the Cædmon manuscript, the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Beowulf manuscript.
The poem was copied in the Exeter Book for transmission to future generations.
This wit was taught with a form of oral tradition called the riddle, a collection of which were bound, along with various other gnomic verses, poems and maxims in the tenth century and deposited in Exeter Cathedral in the eleventh century-the so-called Exeter Book, one of the most important surviving collections of Old English manuscripts.
The riddles in this book vary in significance from childish rhymes and ribald innuendo, to some particularly interesting insights into the thought world of our archaic linguistic ancestors, such as the following ( Riddle 47 from the Exeter Book ):
Using the resources of the Royal Library in Copenhagen and of the libraries of Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge in three successive summer visits to England ( 1829 – 31 ), he went on to make transcriptions of two of the four great codices of Anglo-Saxon poetry: the Exeter Book and the codex designated Junius 11 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
-English translation and commentary by William Hansen, Phlegon of Tralles ' Book of Marvels ( University of Exeter Press, 1996 )
the Exeter Book holds Cynewulf ’ s Juliana and Christ II ( The Ascension ) and the Vercelli Book his Elene and Fates of the Apostles.
It was at one time plausible to believe that Cynewulf was author of the Riddles of the Exeter Book, the Phoenix, the Andreas, and the Guthlac ; even famous unassigned poems such as the Dream of the Rood, the Harrowing of Hell, and the Physiologus have at one time been ascribed to him.

Exeter and also
The same year that Booth's father married Holmes ( 1851 ), he built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore in the 1840s – 1850s.
Exeter Cathedral was reputed to be the possessor of one of his arms, while according to an inventory, St Piran's Old Church, Perranzabuloe, had a reliquary containing his head and also a hearse in which his body was placed for processionals.
He also invaded Vectis ( the Isle of Wight ), finally setting up a fortress and legionary headquarters at Isca Dumnoniorum ( Exeter ).
At Exeter, Morris met Edward Burne-Jones, also a first year undergraduate, who became his lifelong friend and collaborator.
English resistance had also begun, with Eadric the Wild attacking Hereford and revolts at Exeter, where Harold's mother Gytha was a focus of resistance.
She received properties that had belonged to Queen Ælfthryth in Winchester and Rutland, and also controlled the city of Exeter, parts of Devonshire, Suffolk and Oxfordshire.
The Inquisitio Eliensis is a record of the lands of Ely Abbey ; and the Exon Domesday ( so called from the preservation of the volume at Exeter ), which covers Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire ( however only one manor of Wiltshire is included and parts of Devon, Dorset and Somerset are also wanting ) also all contain the full details supplied by the original returns.
A much larger shipment of seed collected ( also in the Calaveras Grove ) by William Lobb, acting for the Veitch Nursery at Budlake near Exeter, arrived in England in December 1853 ; seed from this batch was widely distributed throughout Europe.
From his marriage to Joan, he also became stepfather to her children, including John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, who would marry Edward's niece Elizabeth of Lancaster, daughter of his brother John of Gaunt.
Hardy and his first wife visited Tintagel on various occasions: she drew a sketch of the inside of the church as it was about 1867 R. S. Hawker's poem about the bells of Forrabury refers also to those of Tintagel, but more notable is his one on the Quest for the Sangraal ( first published at Exeter in 1864 ).
The University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, often with a particular focus on the environment and sustainability, and also hosts the world-renowned Camborne School of Mines ( formerly located nearby in Camborne ), which specialises in the understanding and management of the Earth's natural processes, resources and the environment.
Hill also became involved in a BMW dealership, just outside Royal Leamington Spa, that bore his name and an Audi dealership in Exeter.
Soon the station was also used by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the Bristol Harbour Railway and the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway.
Galbraith also identified the use of " parochia " to refer to Exeter as an anachronism, arguing that it should be translated as " diocese " and hence that it referred to the bishopric of Exeter, which was not created until 1050.
Numerous other places have also been given the name Exeter.
Numerous other places have also been given the name Exeter.
Exeter Hospital is also located about 20 minutes away in Exeter.

Exeter and anthology
The Exeter Book, Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, also known as the Codex Exoniensis, is a tenth-century book or codex which is an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late 10th century.

Exeter and located
Exeter is located on State Highway 65, south of Highway 198 and east of Highway 99.
Exeter is located at ( 36. 294213 ,-119. 142746 ).
In the state legislature Exeter is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican Jean Fuller, and in the 34th Assembly District, represented by Republican Connie Conway.
Federally, Exeter is located in California's 21st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 13 and is represented by Republican Devin Nunes.
Exeter is located at ( 39. 719091 ,-90. 496028 ).
Exeter is located at ( 36. 670789 ,-93. 939735 ).
* Exeter ( or Exeter Center ) – A hamlet located near the center of the town on County Road 22.
* West Exeter – A hamlet located near the west town line on NY-51.
Although not located on Turl Street the college has links with the three Turl Street colleges ( Lincoln, Jesus, and Exeter ). The College is also physically linked to Lincoln College through a connecting door, which Brasenose College members are permitted to enter Lincoln College through on Ascension Day each year.
Exeter College has a link with Williams College, a liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.
Exeter is located at ( 41. 325530 ,-75. 819353 ).
The unincorporated communities of Dayton, Exeter, and Ross Crossing are located in the town,
The name Exeter derives from the cathedral city of Exeter in Devon, England because of the mines located near both communities.
Phillips Exeter Academy ( also known as Exeter, Phillips Exeter, or PEA ) is a highly selective, prestigious private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.
During the reign of King Henry I, mints were located in Barnstaple, Bath, Bedford, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Christchurch, Colchester, Derby, Dorchester, Dover, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hastings, Hereford, Huntingdon, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lewes, Lincoln, London, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Pembroke, Pevensey, Rochester, Romney, Salisbury, Sandwich, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, Southampton, Southwark, Stafford, Stamford, Sudbury, Tamworth, Taunton, Thetford, Totnes, Wallingford, Wareham, Warwick, Watchet, Wilton, Winchcombe, Winchester, Worcester, and York.

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