Items (596 total)

Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Includes five pages of manuscript inscriptions by Sister Catherine Witham in the flyleaves at the front of the book.

Framed colour plan of Exeter, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. The plan is decorated with illustrations of the Guildhall, Exeter Cathedral, Northern Hay, the Post Office and St. Sidwells, drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles.

Framed plan of Exeter showing the existing boundaries (in green) and the proposed boundary changes (in yellow), produced by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, Royal Engineers. This plan was the result of the Reform Bill of 1831 and the Boundaries Act…

Digital copy of original Falaj Malki manuscript relating to water and tribal settlement in Izki, Oman.
Manuscript notebook recording names and holdings of the owners of the water shares over a period of approximately 50 years. The pages include a…

Two pages from a transcription of the Stations of the Cross by Sister Kitty [Catherine] Witham.

Strip map by John Ogilby. This item may have originally come from the atlas 'Britannia, volume the first' (2nd ed, 1675) or 'Itinerarium Angliae' (1675), or possibly from the 1698 reprint of 'Britannia'.

This map of Exeter, based on John Hooker’s 1587 map, was published in the book ‘Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum’ and is used to point out the dangers of excessive lust. The Latin and German texts describe how the female serpent bites…

Petition written by Barbara Wiseman, the Abbess of Syon Abbey, concerning three charges made against the community.

The allegations are:
1) the brothers of Syon Abbey ‘dyd governe the systers’
2) ‘the brothers are manteyned at the great…

Framed copy of map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg and printed in Vol. 6 of Georg Braun's 'Theatri praecipuarum totius mundi urbium'. It was based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.

Detail from the Office of the Dead, with a prayer for 'King Henry, our founder', on folio 168v of a Book of Hours for the use of a Syon Abbey nun.

The Foundation Stone of the Arts Building (Queen's) was also laid. The Queen and the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire are pictured leaving the Roborough Library.

Caption reads 'Floodlighted by the Exeter Gaslight & Coke Company. Jubilee Celebrations, 6th May, 1935'.

Hand-written note on reverse of photograph notes: 'Official opening Hatherly Labs 1953'. Third from the left is Sir Edward Salisbury, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, who officially opened the building.

Opened by Mr F Spurway.