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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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18th century 281
Literature 191
19th century 66
17th century 65
Poetry 31
Letters 29
16th century 26
English literature 23
Religion 20
Classical literature 17
History 17
x - 15th century 14
20th century 13
Antiquarians 13
English literature -- 18th century 13
Latin literature 12
Theology 11
Literature -- Translations 10
Authors 9
Religious literature, English 9
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Indexed names
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 6
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 5
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 family | Edgeworthstown 3
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
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
Charleton | W. | fl. 18th century 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
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Churton | Ralph | 1754-1831 | Archdeacon of St David's and a biographer 1
Cibber | Colley | 1671-1757 | Actor and dramatist 1
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Language
English 226
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