[4] He himself owned an extensive library, which
he divided principally between his chapter and the collegiate
churches of Ottery, Crediton, and Boseham, and Exeter
College, Oxford.[5] All St. Thomas Aquinas' works he
bequeathed to the Black Friars' convent at Exeter. To
Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, he gave a fine
copy of St. Anselm's letters, now by good fortune in the
British Museum. A Hebrew Pentateuch once belonging
to him is in the capitular library of Westminster: is it
possible that the bishop was a Hebrew scholar?[6] Among
the books of Windsor College was a volume, De Legendis
et Missis de B. V. Maria, which had been given by him.
[1] Full inventory in Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 301-310.
[2] C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo. ser. iv. 311.
[3] Ego I. de G. Exon., do Eccle. Exon librum istum cum pari suo,
in festo Annuntiationis Dominice. Manu mea, anno consecrationis
mee xxxix.--Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 85.
[4] Lego eisdem libros meos episcopales, majorem et minorem, quos
ego compilavi.--Ibid, 86.
[5] In 1329 he wrote to Richard de Ratforde from Chudleigh:
"Regraciamur vobis quod Librum Sermonum Beati Augustini pro
nobis, prout Magister Ricardus filius Radulphi, ex parte nostra,
vos rogavit, retinuistis, nobisque et condiciones
ejusdem significastis et precium.
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