* The Exeter Book, also an anthology, located in the Exeter Cathedral since it was donated there in the 11th century.

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.

Gothic facade of Exeter Cathedral, with rows of figures in aedicular or tabernacle frames above the door, and two above the crenellation s

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These ranged from simple relics ( Scott's sledging flag in Exeter Cathedral ) to the foundation of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge.

* Scott Memorial in Exeter Cathedral

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

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.

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A panel of 18th century stained glass at Exeter Cathedral indicates that the association of a dragon with the kingdom of Wessex pre-dates the Victorians.

* Construction of Exeter Cathedral is begun.

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Prime examples in are in the Lady Chapel at Ely, the Screen at Lincoln and externally on the façade of Exeter Cathedral.

Exeter Cathedral houses the 16th-century tomb of Preceptor Sylke, inscribed with: ' I am what you will be, and I was what you are.

* Reginald Moore 1933-1947 ( afterwards organist of Exeter Cathedral )

* Exeter Cathedral Floorplan

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Leofric died in 1072 ; although his remains were moved to the new Exeter Cathedral which was built after his death, their location is no longer known and the current tomb does not mark his resting place.

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* Daniel Joseph Wood 1869-1875 ( later Organist of Chichester Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral )

* Exeter Cathedral ( 1869 – 70 )

Henry Phillpotts, D. D., Bishop of Exeter, was born on 6 May 1778 at Bridgwater, Somerset, England, the son of John Phillpotts, a factory owner, innkeeper, auctioneer and land agent to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral.

Bishopstowe ( now the Palace Hotel ) served as the bishop's residence, which he preferred as a home to the Bishop's Residence attached to Exeter Cathedral.

In 1241 Walter already held a number of livings in various parts of the country ; in 1256 he was an agent for Walter of Kirkham Bishop of Durham in a lawsuit ; in 1259 prebendary of St. Paul's, London ; and in 1262 prebendary of Exeter and canon of Wells Cathedral.

Francis Atterbury, Dean of Christ Church thought a 90 ft room would be built on Exeter College land, and that the lower storey would be a library for Exeter College and the upper story Radcliffe's Library.

The Exeter Public Library | Exeter Public Library building, a Carnegie library, is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California | National Register of Historic Places ; it now serves as a community center.

* Exeter Town Library

The Old Public Library of 1894, which now is home to the Exeter Historical Society, was designed by the Boston firm of Rotch & Tilden.

* Exeter Public Library

D: Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS. 3514, pp. 523 – 28, the Cronica ante aduentum Domini.

* Jones, T., 1948, Cronica de Wallia and other Documents from Exeter Cathedral Library MS. 3514, Oxford University Press.

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His papers are archived at the University of Birmingham, British Library, King's College, Cambridge, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the University of Exeter, the University of San Francisco, Warwickshire Record Office, and William Salt Library.

In 2004, the remaining mediæval books in the convent's collection were deposited for safe-keeping with the University of Exeter Library.

H. Tapley-Soper of The City Library, Exeter, writes:

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