Manuscripts from the collections of the Bridgettine community of Syon Abbey [EUL MS 262 and EUL MS 262/add1-3]
Syon Abbey archive [EUL MS 389], comprising papers relating to the Bridgettine community's period in exile in the Low Countries, France and Portugal. These include correspondence with ecclesiastical authorities [EUL MS 389/ECC/1/1] and the 1557 Deed of Restoration signed by Cardinal Pole [EUL MS 389/CHAR/1/1]
Mariette family papers, comprising French historical papers relating to the Mariette family and connected families (such as the de Villeblin family), including wills, inventories, and other legal documents, copies of deeds, and private accounts,16th-19th century [EUL MS 36]
Deed relating to the will of John Green of Luton, 1555 [EUL MS 47b]
The collections include:
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Baring-Gould Library A collection of approximately 3,000 books, the majority of which were collected by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), and include many of his own works. The Library includes books relating to literature, history, theology folklore, fairy tales, religion, music, art, architecture, geography and natural history.
Crediton Parish Library The Crediton Parish Library contains a great number of theological works, but there is also a good cross-section of other subjects, such as history, politics, science, geography and literature.
The Dodderidge Library (Parish Library of Barnstaple, Devon) The Dodderidge Library consists mainly of pre-1700 books, including a few incunabula. There are many books on theology, British, foreign and classical literatures and on geography, history and the sciences.
Exeter Law Society Collection The collection comprises 122 books dating from 1588 to 1906. It contains books, statutes, and law reports, including Ashby and White’s The Great Question (1705), Sir Matthew Hale’s The History of Common Law (1779), 4th Ed., and F. Const’s The Laws Relating to the Poor (1800, 1807).
Hughan Collection A small collection of approximately 150 books dating from 1549 to 1913, focusing mainly on religious themes, including a number of different versions of English Bibles.
Lloyd Collection A collection of rare books with fine bindings created by John Lloyd, the University Librarian at Exeter from 1946 to 1972. It comprises a collection of European fine bindings, illustrated and rare books.
Ottery St Mary Parish Library The Ottery St Mary parish library contains books mainly on theological topics dating from the 16th to the 19th century, but also include five 15th-century incunabula.
Rare Books Collection The collection is the main run of pre-1700 books which are owned by the Library and which have been collected over time. The collection covers a range of subject areas, from theology to architecture, from antiquities to history of science.
A L (Alfred Leslie) Rowse Collection The books taken from his working library are chiefly historical volumes used in his research, including titles on the history of Britain and the history of Devon and Cornwall, with a few literary books interspersed. The collection includes a second edition of Girolamo Pollini’s L’historia ecclesiastica della rivolvzion d’Inghilterra (The ecclesiastical history of the rebellion of England, 1594), which was once owned by Richard Topcliffe - interrogator and torturer in service of Queen Elizabeth I - and contains Topcliffe's annotations and signature in the margins.
Syon Abbey Library The Syon Abbey Library comprises more than 1,000 printed books dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, including hagiographic, devotional, polemical, and historical works. As well as containing numerous individual titles of interest, the collection as a whole is a rich source of study for ecclesiastical history and religious women's reading habits.
Totnes Parish Library The Totnes Library dates back to the early years of the seventeenth century. The collection is strongest in its representation of seventeenth-century titles on divinity.
Constable Map Collection
94 maps (16th-19th centuries, with a particular strength in 17th century maps), arranged in four sections: general British Isles (1-5); English counties (A-Z) (6-48); Wales and Welsh counties (49-77); non-British (78-94). The earliest map in the Constable Collection is an edition of Ptolemy's Hibernia et Albion, published between 1510 and 1530.
The collection is catalogued and entries appear on the University Library's online catalogue under the local classmark 'Constable Maps'.
Townsend Collection
19 maps (16th-19th centuries, with a particular strength in 17th century maps), arranged in two sections: maps of Devon (1-10), maps of Exeter (11-19).
The collection is catalogued and entries appear on the University Library's online catalogue under the local classmark 'Townsend Maps'.