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The Abinger Papers

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
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'Abrahami Heidani...'

'Abrahami Heidani...'
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. c. 15
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1733 in Holland
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An abridgement of Theodorus Janssonius ab Almelhoveen's List of books

An abridgement of Theodorus Janssonius ab Almelhoveen's List of books
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 72
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1700
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'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England'

'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England.'
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 172
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1770-1780
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Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society

Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 261
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1739-Feb 1742
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Accounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations

ccounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 192
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1740-1750
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Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.

Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts d. 1
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1734-1776, chiefly by J. Pocock
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Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1763-1849
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Additional D'Orville Manuscripts

D'Orville's manuscripts, 18th century.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: 18th century
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Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1690-1817
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Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter Sarah Angelina Acland

Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886
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Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720
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'Alveare' (Alveary), a collection of 'rules of prudence, praecepts of morality, helps to conducts and to conversation', in English, French and Latin

'Alveare' (Alveary), a collection of 'rules of prudence, praecepts of morality, helps to conducts and to conversation', in English, French and Latin
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 310
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates: 18th century
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'Analecta Wiltoniensia'

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts e. 1
Extents: 145 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1697-1700 by T. Tanner
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'Annotationes ad Freyeri Tabulas Oratoriae'

'Annotationes ad Freyeri Tabulas Oratoriae'
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 34
Extents: 208 pages
Dates: Written in the middle of the 18th century in Germany
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Anonymous drama

Anonymous drama
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 4233
Extents: 2.0 Volumes
Dates: 18th century
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An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis

An 'Apology' addressed to bp. Burnet by the rev. George Lewis
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 19
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1709 by G. Lewis
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Archive of A.C. Clark

Archive of Albert Curtis Clark (1859-1937).
Extents: 0.71 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 18th-20th cent.
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Archive of Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel

Thirteen volumes, chiefly Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel's notebooks, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century
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Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants

Papers of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London, with papers of his descendants, 1388-1797.
Extents: 7.45 Linear metres (23 Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1388-1797

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Indexed subjects
18th century 282
Literature 191
19th century 67
17th century 65
Poetry 31
Letters 29
16th century 26
English literature 26
Religion 20
History 18
Classical literature 17
20th century 14
English literature -- 18th century 14
x - 15th century 14
Antiquarians 13
Latin literature 12
Theology 11
Literature -- Translations 10
Authors 9
Religious literature, English 9
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Church 8
Greek literature 8
x - 14th century 8
Books 7
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 7
English literature -- 19th century 7
Ireland 7
Law 7
Poets 7
x - 13th century 7
Diaries 6
Drama 6
Latin poetry 6
London (England) 6
Playwriting -- Drama 6
Poems 6
x - 12th century 6
Authors, classical 5
Norfolk (England) 5
Sermons 5
x - 11th century 5
Antiquities 4
Catalogs 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 4
Church of England -- Clergy 4
Commonplace books 4
Humanities 4
Manuscripts 4
Medicine 4
Northamptonshire (England) 4
Oxford (England) 4
x - 10th century 4
Bodleian Library 3
Cornwall (England) 3
Correspondence 3
England 3
Essays 3
Essex (England) 3
French literature 3
Italian literature 3
Liturgies 3
Music 3
Nonjurors 3
Novelists -- 19th century 3
Numismatics 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Philosophy 3
Poetry, Greek 3
Politics and Government 3
Prayers 3
Royal family 3
Warwickshire (England) 3
Wiltshire (England) 3
x - 9th century 3
21st century 2
Accounts 2
Administration of estates 2
Austen -- Jane -- 1775-1817 2
Bible 2
Bible -- O.T. -- Psalms 2
Charters 2
China -- History 2
Christian literature 2
Christian literature -- England 2
Classical languages 2
Coins 2
Diaries -- 18th century 2
Dissenters 2
Dorset (England) 2
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Durham (England) 2
English language 2
English poetry -- 18th century 2
Forests and forestry -- England 2
France 2
German literature 2
Gloucestershire (England) 2
Great Britain -- History 2
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 2
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Indexed names
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 4
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 4
University of Oxford 4
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 3
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 3
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 2
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 2
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
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Burman | Peter | 1668-1741 | "the Elder" | classical scholar 2
Burton | Edward | 1794-1836 | Professor of Divinity 2
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 2
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 2
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 2
Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 2
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
Heber | Richard | 1773-1833 | MP, Book Collector, and Classical Scholar 2
Johnson | Jane | 1706-1759 | of Witham on the Hill, Lincolnshire 2
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 2
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 2
Owen | Humphrey | 1712-1768 | Bodley's librarian 2
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 2
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
Theocritus | c 300 BC-260 BC | Greek poet 2
Voltaire | Francois Marie Arouet De | 1694-1778 | French Man of Letters 2
Wallis | John | 1616-1703 | Mathematician 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | writer and politician 1
Adimari | Lodovico | 1644-1708 | poet 1
Aesop | c.620–564 BC | fabulist and storyteller 1
Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
Aldrich | Henry | fl 1685-1710 | sub-dean and dean of Christ Church 1
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Alleyne | John | c. 1731-1792 | Fellow of University College, Oxford 1
Almelhoveen |Theodorus Janssonius | ab | fl 1700 1
Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 1
Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Astle | Thomas | 1735-1803 | Archivist, antiquary and paleography 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Augustine | d 604 | Saint, first Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 1
Bachet | Claude-Gaspard | 1581-1638 | Sieur de Mériziac | mathematician and littérateur 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Banmer | Sir | Thomas | d. 1746 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Baron | John | fl. 1726-1737 1
Bast | Friedrich Jakob | 1771-1811 | Greek Scholar 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beck | Felix D | author 1
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Birch | George | fl. 1777 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blackstone | Sir | William | 1723-1780 | Judge, MP and historian 1
Bouwers | Johannes | fl. 1693-1745 | professor 1
Bowles | William Lisle | 1762-1850 | Canon of Salisbury, Poet, and Antiquary 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Burman | Pieter | 1713-1778 | the Younger | philologist 1
Burnet | Gilbert | 1643-1715 | Bishop of Salisbury and Historian 1
Butler | Arthur Gray | 1831-1909 | headmaster of Haileybury and clergyman 1
Butler | Harold Edgeworth | 1878-1951 | classical scholar and antiquary 1
Butler | Harriet (Edgeworth) | 1801-1889 | sister of Maria Edgeworth 1
Butler | Harriet Jessie (Edgeworth) | 1851-1946 | wife of Arthur Gray Butler 1
Butler | Henry Montagu | 1833-1918 | headmaster of Harrow and master of Trinity Cambridge 1
Butler | Lady | Marilyn Speers | 1937-2014 | literary scholar and college head 1
Butler | Sir | David Edgeworth | 1924-2022 | Knight | political scientist and psephologist 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Bürger | Gottfried August | 1747-1794 | poet and translator 1
Calamy | Edmund | 1671-1732 | Presbyterian minister and historian 1
Campbell | Thomas | 1777-1844 | Poet 1
Canning | George | 1770-1827 | Politician and parodist, prime minister of Great Britain 1827 1
Canonici | Matteo Luigi | 1727-1805 | Jesuit 1
Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 1
Cartwright | William | d 1799 | Nonjuror 1
Chapman | Thomas | fl 1766 | author 1
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Language
English 227
Latin 91
French 19
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 17
Italian 17
German 14
Greek, Modern (1453-) 9
Spanish; Castilian 8
Dutch; Flemish 6
Irish 4
Multiple languages 4
Welsh 4
English, Old (ca.450-1100) 3
Arabic 3
Cornish 3
Hebrew 2
Persian 2
Portuguese 2
Armenian 1
Catalan; Valencian 1