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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

The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 9 (R)
The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written perhaps about A.D. 1700

First sketch by dr. Edmund Calamy

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 90
First sketch by dr. Edmund Calamy
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: Written about 1713-1727 by dr. E. Calamy

Forty-four sheets bearing inscriptions

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Spanish c. 1
Forty-four sheets bearing inscriptions
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1750-1773 in Spain

'... Geistliche Nachlese des an denen Sonn-Fest- und Apostel-Tagen...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 56
'... Geistliche Nachlese des an denen Sonn-Fest- und Apostel-Tagen...'
Extents: 188 pages
Dates: Written in A.D. 1715 at Leipzig

George Birch, Love elegies (London, 1777)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 48
George Birch, 'Love elegies' (London, 1777)
Extents: 45 pages
Dates: c. 1777

Glossary of naval terms, entitled 'A naval expositor shewing all the words and terms of art .. .'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lang. e. 12
Glossary of naval terms, entitled 'A naval expositor shewing all the words and terms of art .. .', 1732-3
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1732-1733

Gough Collection

 Collection
Richard Gough Collection
Extents: 96.03 Linear metres (873 boxes)
Dates: 12th-19th century

Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 79
Guard-book of documents, letters and literary manuscripts, 16th-20th century
Extents: 172 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century

Guard-book of letters and literary pieces

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 56
Guard-book of letters and literary pieces, 17th-20th century
Extents: 142 Leaves
Dates: 17th-20th cent.

Guard-book of miscellaneous papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 247
Guard-book of miscellaneous papers
Extents: 179 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century

Guardbook containing Charles Lamb, Dream-children (holograph)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. b. 7
Guardbook containing Charles Lamb, Dream-children (holograph) Photograph.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

H δομνίτζα τής Βαβυλώνας, a translation into modern Greek of the Princesse de Babylone of François Arouet de Voltaire

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Gr. misc. f. 3
H δομνίτζα τής Βαβυλώνας, a translation into modern Greek of the Princesse de Babylone of François Arouet de Voltaire
Extents: 118 Leaves
Dates: Written about 1800

Heber Manuscripts

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

Heber (Yriarte) Spanish Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Richard Heber, relating to Spanish history and literature in the 16th-18th centuries.
Extents: 2.86 Linear metres (26 boxes)
Dates: 17th-18th century

Historical collections of John Lewis, 1728

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 313
Historical collections of John Lewis, 1728.
Extents: 541 pages
Dates: 1728

Holograph fair copy of Maria Edgeworth's unpublished play 'Whim for whim'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 648
Holograph fair copy of Maria Edgeworth's unpublished play 'Whim for whim'
Extents: 234 Leaves
Dates: 1795

Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 80
Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates: 1781

Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 205
Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: c.1710-1729

The Howard Gray Swann collection of Warton Family Papers

 Collection
Papers of the Warton family, 1688-1864, including Thomas Warton (1688-1745), Joseph Warton (1722-1800), Thomas Warton (1728-1790).
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1688-1864

Illustrated notebooks of William Gilpin, 'Remarks on Forests'

 Collection
Four illustrated notebooks of William Gilpin, 'Remarks on Forests', 1781
Extents: 0.42 Linear metres (6 physical Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1781