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17th century 303
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18th century 65
16th century 42
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19th century 27
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x - 15th century 20
Church 18
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x - 14th century 11
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Religious literature, English 10
Royal family 10
x - 13th century 10
x - 12th century 9
Books 8
20th century 7
English literature -- 17th century 7
Sermons 7
x - 11th century 7
Commonplace books 6
English poetry 6
Italian literature 6
x - 10th century 6
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 5
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Authors, classical 4
Bible 4
Cornwall (England) 4
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Dutch literature 4
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Ireland 4
Latin prose literature 4
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Norfolk (England) 4
Philosophy 4
Playwriting -- Drama 4
Politics and Government 4
Prayers 4
Authors 3
Biography 3
Bodleian Library 3
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Church of England -- Clergy 3
Devotional literature, German 3
Ecclesiastical courts 3
English poetry -- 17th century 3
France 3
German literature 3
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 3
London (England) 3
Manuscripts, Greek 3
Oxfordshire (England) 3
Poetry -- 17th century 3
Poetry, English 3
Political satire 3
Religious poetry 3
x - 9th century 3
Accounts 2
Alchemy 2
Architects 2
Bible -- N.T. 2
Christian literature -- England 2
Church records and registers 2
Dorset (England) 2
Drama 2
Durham (England) 2
England 2
Engraving 2
Essays 2
Essex (England) 2
French literature 2
Great Britain -- Topography 2
Greece -- History 2
Heraldry 2
House of Commons -- Parliament -- Great Britain 2
Hymns 2
Italy 2
Law -- Great Britain 2
Library catalogs 2
Literature, Medieval 2
Local history 2
Manuscripts, Latin 2
Mathematics 2
Music 2
Indexed names
Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 5
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 4
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 3
University of Oxford 3
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 2
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Bulwer | Matthew | fl 1650-1675 | Schoolboy 2
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 2
Chilmead | Edmund | 1610-1654 | scholar and musician 2
Codrington | Robert | 1601/2-1665 | Translator and writer 2
Coke | Sir | Edward | 1552-1634 | Knight | lawyer, legal writer, and politician 2
Drakestein | Hendrik | van Reede tot | 1636-1691 | Colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company 2
Fairfax | Thomas | 1612-1671 | 3rd Baron Fairfax | politician, general, and Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War 2
Gentili | Alberico | 1552-1608 | Italian jurist 2
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 2
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 2
Heber | Richard | 1773-1833 | MP, Book Collector, and Classical Scholar 2
Herbert | Sir | Henry | bap. 1594-d. 1673 | Knight | Master of the revels 2
Jonson | Benjamin | c. 1573-1637 | poet 2
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 2
Percy | Thomas | 1729-1811 | Bishop of Dromore and antiquary 2
Roe | Thomas | 1581-1644 | Sir | Knight and Diplomat 2
Selden | John | 1584-1654 | Jurist, MP, and Antiquary 2
Sherburne | Sir | Edward | bap. 1616-d. 1702 | Knight | Translator and poet 2
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 2
Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian 2
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 2
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Warton | Thomas | 1728-1790 | Poet, antiquary and literary Scholar 2
Weldon | Sir | Anthony | 1583-1648 | Courtier, politician, and Knight historian 2
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 1
Aesop | c.620–564 BC | fabulist and storyteller 1
Agostini | Leonardo | 1593-1669 | antiquary 1
Alabaster | William | 1567-1640 | Latin Poet and Canon of St Paul's 1
Aldrich | Henry | fl 1685-1710 | sub-dean and dean of Christ Church 1
Alexander VI | d 1503 | Pope 1
Algarotti | Francesco | 1712-1764 | Poet and scholar 1
Allen | Percy Stafford | 1869-1933 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford 1
Allen | Thomas | fl 1700-1799 1
Amando | Anthore | fl. 19th century 1
Anderton | James | 1557-1613 | Religious controversialist also known as John Brereley 1
Anstis | John | 1669-1744 | herald, antiquary, and MP 1
Aquino | Ladislao | d' | 1543-1621 | cardinal 1
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 1
Ashmole | Elias | 1617-1692 | Antiquary and Astrologer 1
Atkey | Richard | fl 1669-1670 1
Atye | Sir | Arthur | d. 1604 | Knight | Academic and politician 1
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 1
Bachet | Claude-Gaspard | 1581-1638 | Sieur de Mériziac | mathematician and littérateur 1
Bacon | Sir | Francis | 1561-1626 | Viscount St Alban, was lord chancellor, a politician, and a philosopher 1
Baker | Sir | Richard | 1568-1645 | Knight | religious writer and historian 1
Ballard | George | 1705-1755 | Antiquary 1
Balzac | Jean-Louis Guez de | 1597?-1654 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Bayer | Johannes | 1572-1625 | Lawyer 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Bellori | Giovanni Pietro | 1613-1696 | painter, antiquarian and biographer 1
Benlowes | Edward | 1602-1676 | poet 1
Bennet | Sir | John | 1552/3-1627 | judge 1
Bennett | Thomas | 1665-1706 | London bookseller 1
Beverland | Hadrian | 1650-1716 | philologist, jurist and philosopher 1
Blaxton | John | fl.1634 | Priest 1
Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 1
Boeckler | Georg Andreas | d. 1687 | architect and engineer 1
Boehme | Jacob |1575-1624 | philosopher and mystic 1
Bouwers | Johannes | fl. 1693-1745 | professor 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Burhill | Robert | bap. 1572-1641 | Church of England clergyman 1
Burnet | Gilbert | 1643-1715 | Bishop of Salisbury and Historian 1
Bywater | Ingram | 1840-1914 | Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford 1
Camden | William | 1551-1623 | antiquary herald schoolmaster 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
Carafa | Carlo | 1517-1561 | cardinal 1
Carew | Richard | 1555-1620 | Cornish antiquary 1
Carey x Cary | Elizabeth | 1585-1639 | nee Tanfield | poet, dramatist, translator, historian and wife of 1st Viscount Falkland 1
Carleton | R | fl. 1674-1675 1
Casaubon | Isaac | 1559-1614 | Prebendary of Canterbury, Classical Scholar, and Diarist 1
Chalkhill | John |d. 1642 | poet 1
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Cherry | Francis | ? 1665-1713 | Nonjuror, Antiquary, and Collector of MSS. and Coins 1
Chrysostom | John | 347-407 | Saint 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Clements | Henry | 1686-1719 | London bookseller 1
Cobbett | William | 1763-1835 | political writer and farmer 1
Coley | Henry | 1633 - c 1695 | Mathematician 1
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 1
Colman | George | bap. 1732-d. 1794 | Playwright and theatre manager 1
Cooke | Caleb | d 1708 | clergyman 1
Cooke | Sarah | fl 1718 | wife of Caleb Cooke 1
Coxe | Henry Octavius | 1811-1881 | Librarian, Palaeographer, and Antiquary 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Crynes | Nathaniel | 1686-1745 | Fellow of St John's College, Oxford 1
D'Ewes | Sir | Simonds | 1602-1650 | 1st baronet | Diarist and antiquary 1
D'Orville | Jacques Philippe | 1696-1751 | Classical Scholar 1

A 17th-cent. Latin play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 102
A 17th-cent. Latin play
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: 17th 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

'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 1 (R)
'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written about A.D. 1660-1670

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

 Collection
Additional Papers of Edmond Malone, including private papers and literary pieces.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 1690-1817

An alchemical discourse on the Philosopher's Stone and kindred subjects

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Fr. d. 3
An alchemical discourse on the Philosopher's Stone and kindred subjects
Extents: 106 pages
Dates: Written A.D. 1675 by J. C

'Analecta Wiltoniensia'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts e. 1
'Analecta Wiltoniensia'
Extents: 145 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1697-1700 by T. Tanner

'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 154
'An Anatomie for the Poore in Spirit Or the Case of an afflicted Conscience layed open by Example'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1608

'Ane apologie for Herrodott. Written orriginallie in French by [Henri Estienne] and translated into English' ['by a person of qualitie'-crossed out]

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 54
'Ane apologie for Herrodott. Written orriginallie in French by [Henri Estienne] and translated into English' ['by a person of qualitie'-crossed out]
Extents: 256 pages
Dates: Early 17th century

'Anno 1661. An Abstract of the Checques on the respective Companies of Foote of his Majestys Army in Ireland...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. b. 116 (R)
'Anno 1661. An Abstract of the Checques on the respective Companies of Foote of his Majestys Army in Ireland...'
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written in A.D. 1661

'Annotationes in librum Iob datae A. D. F. LV. Desovio' and '[Gulielmus] Whitakerus in priorem Epistolam [Pauli] ad Timotheum'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 156
'Annotationes in librum lob datre A. D. F. LV. Desovio' and '[Gulielmus] Whitakerus in priorem Epistolam [Pauli] ad Timotheum'
Extents: 207 Leaves
Dates: Made up of two MSS. written in the 16th and 17th century

Archive of Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel

 Collection
Thirteen volumes, chiefly Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel's notebooks, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century

Archive of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London, and his descendants

 Collection
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

Archive of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire and of her family

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of Jane Johnson of Olney, Buckinghamshire (1706-1759) and of her family, 17th-19th cent.
Extents: 2.7 Linear metres (18 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1706-1759, 17th-19th cent.

Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century

 Collection
Correspondence and literary papers of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), with papers of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Michael Pakenham Edgeworth and other members of the Edgeworth family, mainly 1778-1886.
Extents: 12.65 Linear metres (115 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1768-1849, 17th-19th century

Archive of Thomas Percy

 Collection
Archive of Thomas Percy (1729-1811).
Extents: 2.59 Linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates: 17th-19th century

'An Argument vpon the question of Impositions ...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 116
'An Argument vpon the question of Impositions ...'
Extents: 95 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 17th century

Author's copy of 'Love verses' and 'Miscellanys' and translations, including occasional verse expressing Whig and Low Church sympathies

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 55
Author's copy of 'Love verses' and 'Miscellanys' and translations, including occasional verse expressing Whig and Low Church sympathies, compiled c. 1680-1704
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: c. 1680-1704

The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 186
The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1613

Ballard Collection

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

Batavi in Britannia hospitis Otia Oxoniensia

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 404
'Batavi in Britannia hospitis Otia Oxoniensia,' written in 1690 by H. Beverland
Extents: 96 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1690 by H. Beverland