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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.

Transcripts of 120 letters of the poet John Jarmain to his wife Beryl, with whom he regularly corresponded after travelling to North Africa and South Italy during the Second World War. The letters are dated from 17 June 1942 to 04 November 1943.…

Ronald Duncan's writing hut as it was in July 2017. Taken by the Project Archivist for the Ronald Duncan collection on a visit to Welcombe.

Colour photograph showing Rose Marie Duncan seated outside Gothic House with a cane.