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x - 13th century 8
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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

Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 128
Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London, 1945.
Extents: 195 Leaves
Dates: 1945

Autograph drafts, and fair copies by G. Dixon, of verse by Thomas Donaldson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 40
Autograph drafts, and fair copies by G. Dixon
Extents: 143 Leaves
Dates: c. 1809

Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fol. 78
Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris', 27 Mar 2020.
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: 27 Mar 2020

Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 58
Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer.
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: 1863

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 27
Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1949

Ballard Collection

 Collection
George Ballard's manuscript collection.
Extents: 8.36 Linear metres (76 boxes)
Dates: 16th-18th century

Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3220
Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne
Extents: 331 Leaves
Dates: 1997

'Basque miscellanea'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Basque d. 3
'Basque miscellanea'
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

Batel lists, quit rents, Bagley accounts and allowances of st. John's college, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon b. 2
Batel lists, quit rents, Bagley accounts and allowances of st. John's college, Oxford
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly in A.D. 1733

Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers

 Collection
Papers relating to the Beddoes and Edgeworth family.
Extents: 3.21 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: late 17th century-1942

'Berkshire & Oxfordshire Antiquities...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Berks e. 8
'Berkshire & Oxfordshire Antiquities...'
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1851-1869

Berkshire collections of Henry Hinton, a companion volume to his collections for Oxfordshire

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 146
Berkshire collections of Henry Hinton, a companion volume to his collections for Oxfordshire
Extents: 757 pages
Dates: 19th century

Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8239
An unbound proof copy of Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby
Extents: 412 Leaves
Dates: [c.2013]

Biblical notes, of varied character and date

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 19
Biblical notes, of varied character and date
Extents: 184 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 19th century by various hands

Biographical notes by John Aubrey

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7903, fols. 22-23
Biographical notes by John Aubrey.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1689

The Book of Dust bag

 Single Item
Shelfmark: JL 1002
The Book of Dust bag
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2017

Books 33-36 of The ecclesiastical history of M. L 'Abbe Fleury, translated by H. Herbert (vol. 4, London, 1730)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 17
Books 33-36 of The ecclesiastical history of M. L 'Abbe Fleury, translated by H. Herbert (vol. 4, London, 1730).
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: 1730-1844

Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75)

 Collection
Books and papers of James Blish (1921-75), science fiction writer.
Extents: 44.1 Linear metres (441 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: c. 1936-77

Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall

 Collection
Books from the library of David Cornwell (John le Carré) at Tregiffian, his home in Cornwall, 1973-2015.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1973-2015

Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children (1908), with illustrations by Muirhead Bone

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22129
Bound autograph manuscript of Gertrude Bone, Children's Children, with illustrations by Muirhead Bone, [1907].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1907]