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x - 12th century 3
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Church Architecture | England 2
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Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 7
University of Oxford 7
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 5
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 5
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 5
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 4
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 3
Spalding | Philip Anthony | 1911-1989 | writer 3
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 3
University of Oxford | Prizes 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 2
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 2
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 2
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 2
Bennett | Alan | b 1934 | author and playwright 2
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 2
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 2
Daryush | Elizabeth | 1887-1977 | née Bridges | poet 2
Eddison | Eric Rucker | 1882-1945 | Author 2
Flaccus | Quintus Horatius | c 65-8 BC | Roman poet known as Horace 2
Flecker | Herman James Elroy | 1884-1915 | poet and playwright 2
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 2
Grahame | Elspeth S | 1862-1946 2
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 2
Jenkins | Margaret Elizabeth Heald | 1905-2010 | novelist and biographer 2
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 2
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 2
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | literary scholar and biographer 2
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 2
Rolfe | Frederick William | 1860-1913 | Author 'baron Corvo' 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
Terentius Afer | Publius | ? 195 BC-? 159 BC | Roman comic dramatist 2
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | writer and philologist 2
University of Cambridge 2
"Troglodyte" | fl. 1918 | pseudonym 1
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 1
Adcock | Arthur St John | 1864-1930 | Novelist 1
Adcock | Marion L | fl 1879-1890 1
Amand | James St | 1687-1754 | Antiquary 1
Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 1
Arlott | (Leslie Thomas) John | 1914-1991 | writer and broadcaster 1
Askew | Anthony | 1722-1774 | Classical Scholar, Physician, and Collector of MSS and Books 1
Ault | Norman | 1880-1950 | Author and Artist 1
Austen | Cassandra Elizabeth | 1773–1845 | sister of Jane Austen 1
Bailey | Hilary | 1936-2017 | writer, critic and editor 1
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 1
Baynes | Emma Katherine | fl 1862-1935 1
Baynes | Norman Hepburn | 1877-1961 | historian 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Beddoes | Thomas | 1760-1808 | physician and writer 1
Beecham | Helen Audrey | 1915-1989 | poet and academic | known as Audrey Beecham 1
Bensly | Edward Von Blomberg | 1863-1939 | English Scholar 1
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 1
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | novelist 1
Bentley | Edmund Clerihew | 1875-1956 | Writer 1
Bernières | Louis de | b.1954 | novelist 1
Betjeman | Penelope Valentine Hester | 1910-1986 | née Chetwode | writer and wife of John Betjeman 1
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | Author 1
Blaker | Richard Sidney | 1893-1940 | author 1
Bligh | Eric Walter | fl 1889-1965 | bookseller and writer 1
Blish | James Benjamin | 1921-1975 | writer 1
Blome | Richard | bap. 1635, d. 1705 | Cartographer and bookseller 1
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 1
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
Bodkin | Amy Maud | 1875-1967 | Author and Literary Critic 1
Bodleian Library 1
Bodleian Library | University of Oxford 1
Bond | (Thomas) Michael | 1926-2017 | author 1
Bone | Lady | Gertrude Helena | 1876-1962 | née Dodd | writer 1
Bone | Sir | Muirhead | 1876-1953 | printmaker and draughtsman 1
Bowen | Elizabeth Dorothea Cole | 1899-1973 | afterwards Cameron | novelist 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Bradby | Eliza Dorothy | 1861-1927 | Author 1
Bradley | Katherine Harris | 1846-1914 | Poet and Dramatist called Arran Leigh also shared pseudonym with Edith Emma Cooper, Michael Field 1
Bretherton | John Christopher | 1925-2015 1
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 1
Brod | Max | 1884-1968 | author, composer and journalist 1
Broukhusius | Janus | fl 1561 1
Brown | Edna | fl 1935-6 | nee Young | wife of Philip Anthony Spalding 1
Brunner | John Kilian Houston | 1934-1995 | science-fiction writer 1
Bulstrode | Sir | Richard | 1617-1711 | Diplomat and writer 1
Burges | George | 1786-1864 | classical scholar 1
Burton | Robert | 1577-1640 | Author 1
Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
Candler | Sarah | 1790-1816 | poet 1
Cannan | May Wedderburn | 1893-1973 | poet and writer 1
Cape | Herbert Jonathan | 1879-1960 | Publisher 1
Caravella | Johannes | fl. 1730-1770 | classical scholar 1
Chandler | Raymond | 1888-1959 | writer 1
Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Church | Richard Thomas | 1893-1972 | poet and writer 1
Cobb | Richard Charles | 1917-1996 | historian 1

Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Miscellaneous 3, fols. 1-11
Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock, 1931-1964.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1931-1964

English Poem on a Sacred Subject, Prize Poems, University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 24-29
Printouts of English Poem on a Sacred Subject, Prize Poems, University of Oxford, 2010-2019.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2010-2019

English translation, c.1700, of works of Origen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. d. 53
English translation, c.1700, of works of Origen.
Extents: 379 pages
Dates: c.1700

Essays Relating to W.H. White

 Collection
Papers relating to W.H. White consisting of: Typescript essays concerning W.H. White, 'Mark Rutherford', by his second son J.H. White 'Notes', 1931, Extracts from Rutherford's letters to J.H. White and his wife, 1880-1912 'Notes' concerning Rutherford's correspondence with Thomas Hutchinson
Extents: 3 shelfmarks
Dates: 1880-1931

'Expression from a labor uttered into the world through which, in all lands...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 51
'Expression from a labor uttered into the world through which, in all lands...'
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: Chiefly type-written in A.D. 1908 by A. Welcker

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1986

Genealogical tables of royal and noble families of Europe, compiled by Eliza D. Bradby

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. b. 171
Genealogical tables of royal and noble families of Europe, compiled by Eliza D. Bradby, late 19th to early 20th century.
Extents: 49 Leaves
Dates: late 19th to early 20th century

Group of seven autograph letters from John Hughes to Harriet Thayer, 1817 and Madame Thiebault (Thayer's married name), 1829-1833

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 1-15
Group of seven autograph letters from John Hughes to Harriet Thayer, 1817 and Madame Thiebault (Thayer's married name), 1829-1833.
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: 1817, 1829-1833

Guard-book of letters

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 196
Guard-book of letters
Extents: 205 Leaves
Dates: 17th-20th century

Guard-books of Letters of C.S. Lewis

 Collection
Guard-books of Letters of C.S. Lewis
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: [c. 1914]-1963

Heber Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Richard Heber, 13th-19th century
Extents: 1.48 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: 13th-19th century

Hody's Collectanea

 Collection
Hody's Collectanea, including lists of Greek and Latin writers cited by classical authors.
Extents: 2.53 Linear metres (23 boxes)
Dates: 1677-1700

The John Ryder Archive

 Collection
Papers and correspondence of John Ryder (1917–2001), book designer, art director, and typographer.
Extents: 156.22 Linear metres (440 boxes)
Dates: Majority of material found within [1548]-2001; [1890]-2001

Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Poems, University of Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fols. 30-36.
Printouts of Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Poems, University of Oxford, 2016-2022.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 2016-2022

Joyce Cary's pencil sketches of illustrations for a limited edition of his novel, The Horse's Mouth (London, 1957)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 179, fols. 18-25
Joyce Cary's pencil sketches of illustrations for a limited edition of his novel, The Horse's Mouth (London, 1957).
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: 1957

Langford Reed, My Limerick Book (1937): author's copy with associated correspondence and newspaper cuttings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 24100
Langford Reed, My Limerick Book (1937): author's copy with associated correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1928-1943; Majority of material found within 1937-1938

Latin translation of some of Plutarch's Lives by Edward Pococke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. e. 22
Latin translation of some of Plutarch's Lives (Theseus and Romulus; Lycurgus and Numa; Solon and Publicola) by Edward Pococke.
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: 1592/1593

Lectures by J.J. Conybeare

 Collection
'Praelectiones academicae', an incomplete series of lectures on classical authors by J.J. Conybeare given while Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1812-21

Letter from C.S. Lewis to Elizabeth Munro

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 25-26
Letter from C.S. Lewis to Elizabeth Munro, 30 Nov 1948.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 30 Nov 1948

Letter from Edward Frederic Benson accepting a commission to write a short story

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. e. 141, fols. 20-21
Letter from Edward Frederic Benson accepting a commission to write a short story
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c.1920