{"id":46,"date":"2008-10-13T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T09:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=46"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:31:25","slug":"exeter-cathedral-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Exeter Cathedral Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/riddle-4.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47 aligncenter\" title=\"Exeter Cathedral Library\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/riddle-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/riddle-4.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/riddle-4-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A1111348\">Exeter Book<\/a><\/strong> was donated to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk\/visiting\/library-and-archive\/cathedrallibrary.ashx\">Library of Exeter Cathedral<\/a><\/strong> in 1072 by Leofric, the first bishop of Exeter, and contains the earliest known examples of Old English poetry in existence. At various times it has been used as a medieval carpenter&#8217;s chopping block, had glue spilt on it and suffered from scorching. It is believed originally to have contained 131 leaves, of which the first 8 have been replaced with other leaves; the original first 8 pages are lost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/exeter-book.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75 aligncenter\" title=\"Exeter Book postcard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/exeter-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/exeter-book.jpg 469w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/exeter-book-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk\/visiting\/library-and-archive\/cathedrallibrary.ashx\">&#8211; Exeter Cathedral Library will be closed throughout 2011 &#8211; see their website for more information<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home of Bishop Leofric&#8217;s Exeter Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,4,18,22,23,27,24],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devon-2","tag-cathedral-library","tag-devon","tag-exeter","tag-exeter-book","tag-leofric","tag-old-english","tag-riddles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}