THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PETER IN EXETER

The Library and Archives

This collection of photographs covers books, manuscripts and other items stored in the Cathedral Library and in the Archives. The Library and Archives are not normally open to the public, but certain items may be viewed by appointment. Shown here is just a small selection from the many treasures in the Cathedral's care.

The titles below are brief and just act as links to the pages, which contain a fuller description of the pictured items.

Pictures currently available:

• The "Exeter Book" of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
• The Exon Domesday
• A Book of Hours
• A Missal
• Beatus page from a Psalter
• Gaddesden's Rosa Medicinae
• Pythagoras' Theorem
• Deerskin binding
• Grandisson's Legenda
• Cicero's De Officiis
• Stamped binding
• "Massachusset" New Testament
• Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
• Sealed Book of Common Prayer
• Seal and proclamation from Sealed Book of Common Prayer
• Hooker's plan of Cathedral Close
• Passion Flower plate
• Foundation Charter of the See of Exeter
• Grant of Land (forgery)
• An ordinance of Bishop Walter Stapeldon
• Grant of land in Exeter
• Carter's engraving of the West front
• Bishop Bitton's Chalice
• Votive wax figures

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