EXETER BOOK (Codex Exoniensis), an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to Exeter cathedral by Leofric (bishop of Exeter from 105o to 1071), and still there. It contains legal documents, the poems entitled Crist, Guthlac, The Wanderer, etc., and 8o or 90 riddles. It was first described in Wanley's Catalogus with many inaccuracies; subsequently by Cony beare, "Account of a Saxon Manuscript" (Archaeologia, xvii. 180 197, 1814). A complete transcript made (1831) by Robert Cham bers is in the British Museum (Addit. ms. 9,067). It was first printed in 1842 by Thorpe for the Soc. of Antiq., London. More recent editions are :—in Grein's Bibliothek der A.S. Poesie (vol. iii. part I, ed. Wiilker, Leipzig, 1897). Schipper in Pfeiffer's Germania, xix. 327-339, and Gollancz, Exeter Book, pt. i. (1895) with translation (E.E.T.S.).