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18th century 282
Literature 191
19th century 68
17th century 65
Poetry 31
Letters 29
16th century 26
English literature 26
Religion 20
History 18
Classical literature 17
English literature -- 18th century 15
20th century 14
x - 15th century 14
Antiquarians 13
Latin literature 12
Theology 11
Literature -- Translations 10
Authors 9
Religious literature, English 9
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
Commonplace books 5
Humanities 5
Norfolk (England) 5
Sermons 5
x - 11th century 5
Antiquities 4
Authors, classical 4
Catalogs 4
Children's literature -- 20th century 4
Church of England -- Clergy 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
English poetry -- 18th century 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
Books and reading 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
Drawings 2
Durham (England) 2
English language 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
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
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

Papers relating to Samuel Johnson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 62
Papers relating to Samuel Johnson, 1778-1830
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 1778-1830

Paraphrase in verse of the penitential psalms by Lodovico Adimari

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. c. 71
Paraphrase in verse of the penitential psalms by Lodovico Adimari, 18th century.
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

Part of a first draft by Richard Gough of his History of Carausius

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 58
Part of a first draft by Richard Gough of his History of Carausius
Extents: 41 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1760 by R. Gough

Paston and Coke papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Norfolk b. 3
Paston and Coke papers
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1601-1787

The personal receipts and expenditure of John Alleyne of University college, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 124
The personal receipts and expenditure of John Alleyne of University college, Oxford
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1747-1776

Photocopies of Papers Relating to Jonathan Swift, collected by Professor Herbert Davis

 Collection
Photocopies of Papers Relating to Jonathan Swift, collected by Professor Herbert Davis.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 20th cent. (photocopies of 17th and 18th cent. originals)

Photocopy of a 20th-century transcript of 'Povest o razvratnom monakhe. Posvyashchenie.' [The tale of the debauched monk. The initiation.], by Ivan Semenovich Barkov

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 299
Photocopy of a 20th-century transcript of 'Povest o razvratnom monakhe. Posvyashchenie.' [The tale of the debauched monk. The initiation.], by Ivan Semenovich Barkov.
Extents: 49 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 144, fols. 1-14
Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1792, 1939

Photostats and photographs of material connected with Samuel Johnson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 72
Photostats and photographs of material connected with Samuel Johnson.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: originals dated 1736-1737, 1775, 1778, n.d.

Photostats and transcript of Samuel Johnson's Irene

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 64
Photostats and transcript of Samuel Johnson's Irene.
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Pigott Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts of Harriet Pigott (1775-1846), traveller and writer.
Extents: 10.46 Linear metres (86 boxes)
Dates: 1685-first half of the 19th cent.

Poem, mid-18th century, headed 'Pièce de Voltaire'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. French d. 34
Poem, mid-18th century, headed 'Pièce de Voltaire', beg. 'Combien d'objets divers, plus ou moins méprisables'.
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: mid 18th century

Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift

 Collection
Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1714-1733

Poems and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.

 Collection
Poems and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Written in about 1740-1805, almost entirely by R. Gough

Poems by, and in the hand of, Robert Southey

 Collection
Poems by, and in the hand of, Robert Southey
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Written by R. Southey in about 1800-1829

Prayers, meditations, and aspirations of a Poor Clare

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 2
Prayers, meditations, and aspirations of a Poor Clare
Extents: 200 pages
Dates: Written about A.D. 1700

Rawlinson Manuscripts

 Collection
Richard Rawlinson's collection of manuscripts, 8th-18th century.
Extents: 3571 boxes (392.81 linear metres)
Dates: 8th-18th century

Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill, kept in Bath, Tunbridge Wells and London.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12395
Reading journal of Henrietta Nevill
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c. 1802-c. 1804

'Relation d'une Nation de Géants nouvellement découverte'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. French c. 6
'Relation d'une Nation de Géants nouvellement découverte'
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1766

'Sanctissimæ Trinitati ... et sanctissimo Anglorum Apostolo Augustino, patrono suo ... d.d. cc. q. ... Poetæ Collegii Anglicani Duaceni, Anno mdcclxii'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 5
'Sanctissimæ Trinitati ... et sanctissimo Anglorum Apostolo Augustino, patrono suo ... d.d. cc. q. ... Poetæ Collegii Anglicani Duaceni, Anno mdcclxii'
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1767 in several hands at Douay