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University of Oxford 192
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 109
Church of England 94
Goadby | Frank Reginald Lindsay | 1899-1985 | Brigadier Historian of Standlake 87
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 79
Conservative Party 65
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 54
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 39
Bodleian Library 35
United Nations 34
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 33
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 33
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 28
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 27
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 27
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 23
Conservative Party | professional headquarters 22
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 21
Phillipps | Sir | Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 21
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 20
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 19
Boyce | William | 1710-1779 | musician 18
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 18
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 18
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 17
Harris | C. G | Oxfordshire Family History Society 17
Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 17
Ruskin | John | 1819-1900 | author, artist, and social reformer 17
Handel | George Frederick | 1685-1759 | musical composer 16
Lowe | Edward | 1610-1682 | composer, music copyist, organist and writer on music 16
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 16
Oxfam GB 16
Wood | Anthony | 1632-1695 | Antiquary 16
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 15
Wilberforce | Samuel | 1805-1873 | Bishop of Oxford and Winchester 15
Willis | Browne | 1682-1760 | Antiquary and Numismatist 15
Ducarel | Andrew Coltee | 1713-1785 | Antiquary 14
Hyde | Edward | 1609-1674 | 1st Earl of Clarendon | Lord Chancellor 14
Pusey | Edward Bouverie | 1800-1882 | Canon of Christ Church Oxford 14
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 13
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 13
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 13
Madan | Falconer | 1851-1935 | Bodley's Librarian, palaeographer and bibliographer 13
Oxford Development Records Project 13
Oxford University 13
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 13
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 13
Wilberforce | William | 1759-1833 | MP, Philanthropist 13
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 13
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 12
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 12
Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 12
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 12
Gibson | Strickland | 1877-1958 | Librarian and Bibliographer 12
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 12
Madden | Sir | Frederic | 1801-1873 | Knight | antiquary and palaeographer 12
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 12
Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 12
University of Cambridge 12
University of Oxford | Christ Church 12
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 11
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 11
Conservative Party | Conservative Research Department 11
Conservative Party | National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations 11
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 11
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 11
Ker | Neil Ripley | 1908-1982 | palaeographer and bibliographer 11
Labour Party 11
Oxford University | New College 11
Society of Genealogists 11
Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher 11
Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 10
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 10
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 10
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 10
Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 10
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 10
Lawes | William | 1602-1645 | musician and composer 10
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 10
Oxford University Dramatic Society 10
Salter | Herbert Edward | 1863-1951 | Historian 10
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 10
Anstis | John | 1669-1744 | herald, antiquary, and MP 9
Attlee | Clement Richard | 1883-1967 | 1st Earl Attlee | politician and prime minister 9
Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816–1875 | Knight | composer 9
British South Africa Company 9
Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 9
Church of England | Bishops 9
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 9
Coxe | Henry Octavius | 1811-1881 | Librarian, Palaeographer, and Antiquary 9
Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 9
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 9
Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 9
Hurst | Herbert | 1834-? 1914 | Oxford Antiquary 9
Nichols | John Gough | 1806-1873 | Printer and Antiquary 9
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 9
United Nations Career Records Project | 1989-1992 9
University of Oxford | Ashmolean Museum 9
University of Oxford | Balliol College 9
University of Oxford | Prizes 9
Language
Latin 558
French 292
German 159
Italian 152
Spanish; Castilian 61
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 53
Greek, Modern (1453-) 52
Dutch; Flemish 40
Russian 39
Portuguese 34

28 anthems in score, almost all copied by a single, early 18th-cent. scribe

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 58
28 anthems in score, almost all copied by a single, early 18th cent. scribe.
Extents: 120 Leaves
Dates: early 18th cent.

37 short pieces for bass viol (companion volume to MS. Mus. Sch. f. 573)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 574 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 28)
Companion volume to f. 573, mainly copied by the third hand, and containing two of the same pieces by P. Hacquart, [date].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

40 negative photostats of Commentary on the Sentences by Robert Cowton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. b. 80
40 negative photostats of Commentary on the Sentences by Robert Cowton
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: originals dated 14th century

41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: c. 1925

82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 571
82 letters from Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, to Patricia Beck, with 1 letter to Douglas Jay
Extents: 156 Leaves
Dates: 1957-1967

120 MS. songs, chiefly for single voices

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 146
120 MS. songs, chiefly for single voices
Extents: 169 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 1st quarter of the 19th century by Mrs. Martha Jeffreys

135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. d. 462
135 letters and notes of Walter de la Mare to John Freeman and to his wife Gertrude.
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates: 1906-1952

381 coats of arms in trick, from the Visitation of Cornwall of 1620, followed by a few pedigrees

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Cornwall c. 1
381 coats of arms in trick, from the Visitation of Cornwall of 1620, followed by a few pedigrees, written perhaps in the second quarter of the 17th century.
Extents: 69 Leaves
Dates: written perhaps in the second quarter of the 17th century

'1700... A List of his Majestyes Royal Navy'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 981
'1700... A List of his Majestyes Royal Navy', giving names, kind, dimensions, tonnage, guns, and date, etc. of construction.
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1700

'1831. Stoke Poges Parish Memorandum Book. S. Godolphin Osborne'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Bucks e. 1
'1831. Stoke Poges Parish Memorandum Book. S. Godolphin Osborne'
Extents: 218 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1831 and following years by S. G. Osborne

1994 South African Election Material

 Collection
General policy documents and statements, leaflets, newspaper advertisements, etc., African National Congress; manifestos, general policy documents/statements, leaflets, etc., Democratic Party; manifestos, general policy document, leaflets, newspaper and newspaper advertisements, National Party; general policy documents/ statements, leaflets, information documents and newspaper advertisements, Inkatha Freedom Party; records relating to other political parties and associated organisations;...
Extents: 23 boxes
Dates: 1990s

1999 South African Election Material

 Collection
Election policy documents, videos, posters and leaflets, various parties; address of Nelson Mandela to the last session of the first Parliament; National Women's Day leaflet, [1997]; Job Creation Trust leaflet, 1999.
Extents: 6 boxes
Dates: [1999]

The abbey of St. Denis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1938

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 239
The abbey of St. Denis in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1938.
Extents: 117 Leaves
Dates: 1938

'Abingdon, 1812. Reading and Library Society. Catalogue' of books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Berks e. 1
'Abingdon, 1812. Reading and Library Society. Catalogue' of books
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1812

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

About 120 drawings of English churches, etc., chiefly in Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire or Norfolk

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. b. 47
About 120 drawings of English churches, etc., chiefly in Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire or Norfolk, drawn in A.D. 1847-1849 by R. G. H. Waters
Extents: 46 Leaves
Dates: drawn in A.D. 1847-1849 by R. G. H. Waters

About 1650 signatures, cut from letters and documents

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. c. 11
About 1650 signatures, cut from letters and documents
Extents: 27 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th-19th century

An Abridgement of Livy's Roman History

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 210
An Abridgement of Livy's Roman History, written in the second half of the 18th century.
Extents: 182 Leaves
Dates: written in the second half of the 18th century

'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Fairfax 39
'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'
Extents: 96 pages
Dates: Written in 1649 by J. Raymond

'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 172
'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England.'
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1770-1780