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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
University of Oxford 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 6
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 6
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 4
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 3
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 3
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2
Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 2
Bridges | Mary Monica | 1863-1949 | née Waterhouse | wife of Robert Bridges 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | poet laureate 2
Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
Clare | John | 1793-1864 | Poet 2
Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2
Coleridge | Samuel Taylor | 1772-1834 | Poet and philosopher 2
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 2
Connolly | Helga Mary | 1916-1985 | née Guinness, other married name Greene | literary agent 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
Davids | Roy | 1942-2017 | book dealer, collector, writer 2
Davis | Herbert John | 1893-1967 | English scholar 2

Collection of poems, including political satires, topical verse, epigrams and groups of poems

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 50
Collection of poems, including political satires, topical verse, epigrams and groups of poems
Extents: 135 Leaves
Dates: c. 17th century

Collection of prophecies

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Shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 1835
Collection of prophecies, in English and Latin, 16th and 17th cent., partly in the hand of Elias Ashmole.
Extents: 142 Leaves
Dates: 16th-17th century

Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 37
Collection of prose and verse, copied in one hand, first half of 17th century.
Extents: 158 pages
Dates: First half of the 17th century

Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 47
Collection of religious and didactic verse and prose, mainly copied from printed works, 18th century.
Extents: 151 pages
Dates: 18th century

Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 57
Collection of verse and prose in three hands, early to mid-17th century. Sonnets / Poems by William Alabaster and 2 others.
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Collection of verse, probably copied in the late 1630s

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 53
Collection of verse, probably copied in the late 1630s
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: c. 1630's

Collection of Welsh Poems

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Collection of Welsh Poems
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 17th-18th century

Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 135
Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: c. 1865

Collections chiefly for the history of the cathedral of Rochester and its possessions, made by dr. John Denne, archdn. of Rochester (d. 1767)

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Kent c. 1
Collections chiefly for the history of the cathedral of Rochester and its possessions, made by dr. John Denne, archdn. of Rochester (d. 1767)
Extents: 267 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century by J. an S. Denne

'Collections for an account of ... the site, siege, sale, & destruction of the Original Palace of Woodstock, by V[aughan] T[homas]'

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon b. 15
'Collections for an account of ... the site, siege, sale, & destruction of the Original Palace of Woodstock, by V[aughan] T[homas]'
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1850 chiefly by V. Thomas

Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers

 Collection
Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers from the point where Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses leaves off, to about 1800, with additions to about 1815, written in about 1780-1815 by J. Gutch.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c.1780-1815

'Collections for the Grammatical Analysis of the Poem of LaЗamon. By Sir F. Madden, 1838-1848'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 8
'Collections for the Grammatical Analysis of the Poem of LaЗamon. By Sir F. Madden, 1838-1848'
Extents: 240 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1838-1848 by sir F. Madden

Collections for the history of Essex by Foote Gower

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Essex b. 4
Collections for the history of Essex by Foote Gower
Extents: 231 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century chiefly by F. Gower

Collections relating to the baronage, mainly the descent of titles through women

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 141
Collections relating to the baronage, mainly the descent of titles through women, early 17th century.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: early 17th century

Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 135
Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee.
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 17-23 Aug 1992

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

'The Comedies of Terence, translated into English by Richard Gough Esq, 1751. Mem. The Heautontimoroumonus is missing.'

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. e. 1
'The Comedies of Terence, translated into English by Richard Gough Esq, 1751. Mem. The Heautontimoroumonus is missing.'
Extents: 199 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1751 by R. Gough

Comic dialogue, 'Oranges or Lemons? Or the Philosophy of Life Exposed. By Oceana Blanche Lega-Weekes. London Printed and Published at the Haarlem Press West Kensington by Celia Lega-Weekes'

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Comic dialogue, 'Oranges or Lemons? Or the Philosophy of Life Exposed. By Oceana Blanche Lega-Weekes. London Printed and Published at the Haarlem Press West Kensington by Celia Lega-Weekes'
Extents: 0.1 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1892-1902

A Common Place Book, consisting chiefly of extracts from Latin authors

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. e. 26
A Common Place Book, consisting chiefly of extracts from Latin authors
Extents: 566 pages
Dates: Written in the 17th century in England

A common place book ('Liber A'), containing extracts from biblical, classical, and English authors

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 28
A common place book ('Liber A'), containing extracts from biblical, classical, and English authors
Extents: 649 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly in about 1620-1630 (?)