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Literature 860
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17th century 303
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English literature 249
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x - 15th century 33
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x - 12th century 15
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English literature -- 18th century 14
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x - 13th century 14
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French literature 13
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Italian literature 13
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English language 12
German literature 12
English poetry -- Women authors 11
Lectures and lecturing 11
London (England) 11
Philosophy 11
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Politics and Government 11
Prayers 11
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Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
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Northamptonshire (England) 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
Basque literature 8
Catholic Church 8
Drama 8
Dutch literature 8
English literature -- 21st century 8
Journalism 8
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Medicine 8
Oxfordshire (England) 8
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University of Oxford -- Students 8
Women authors, English -- 20th century 8
Academic writing 7
Accounts 7
Artists 7
Authors -- 19th century 7
Indexed names
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 57
Auden | Wystan Hugh | 1907-1973 | poet and writer 14
University of Oxford 14
Lawrence | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | soldier, author, and archaeologist known as Lawrence of Arabia 12
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 11
Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 11
Williams | Charles Walter Stansby | 1886-1945 | author 10
Edgeworth | Maria | 1768-1849 | novelist and educationist 9
Larkin | Philip Arthur | 1922-1985 | poet 9
Mare | Walter John de la | 1873-1956 | author and poet 9
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 8
University of Oxford | Prizes 8
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 7
Clark | Andrew | 1854-1922 | Clergyman and Antiquary 7
Dodgson | Edward Spencer | 1857-1922 | Bascologist 7
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 7
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 6
Cary | Arthur Joyce Lunel | 1888-1957 | Author 6
Cornwell | David John Moore | 1931-2020 | writer known as John le Carré 6
Tullius Cicero | Marcus | 106-43 BC | Roman orator and statesman 6
Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 5
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 5
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 5
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 5
Hooper | Walter McGehee | 1931-2020 | literary advisor 5
Johnson | Samuel | 1709-1784 | Author and lexicographer 5
Kafka | Franz | 1883-1924 | Writer 5
Pym | Barbara Mary Crampton | 1913-1980 | Novelist 5
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 5
Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 5
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 5
Benson | Edward Frederic | 1867-1940 | author 4
Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 4
Coles | Jenny | nee Joseph | 1932-2018 | writer 4
Collier | John Payne | 1789-1883 | Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary, and journalist 4
Coppard | Alfred Edgar | 1878-1957 | writer 4
Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 4
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 4
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 4
Godwin | William | 1756–1836 | writer 4
Grahame | Kenneth | 1859-1932 | writer and secretary of the Bank of England 4
Greene | Henry Graham | 1904-1991 | novelist 4
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 4
Hermogenes | 161-180 | of Tarsus, Greek rhetorician 4
Lambert | Jack Walter | 1917-1985 | literary critic and editor 4
Lewis | John | 1675-1747 | Antiquary 4
MacNeice | Frederick Louis | 1907-1963 | poet and playwright 4
Newman | John Henry | 1801-1890 | theologian and cardinal 4
Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 4
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 4
Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 4
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 3
Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer 3
Amis | Sir | Kingsley William | 1922-1995 | Knight | novelist and literary critic 3
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 3
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 3
Carew | Thomas | 1594-1640 | Poet 3
Chambers | Edmund Kerchever | 1866-1954 | Sir | Knight and English Scholar 3
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 3
Edgeworth | Richard Lovell | 1744–1817 | inventor 3
Elmsley | Peter | 1773-1825 | Classical Scholar 3
Eusebius of Caesarea | 265-339 AD | historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist 3
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 3
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Lambert | Catherine | nee Read | b. 1918 | vocal coach 3
Lewis | Cecil | Day- | 1904-1972 | poet and novelist 3
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 3
Murdoch | Dame | Iris | 1919-1999 | novelist and philosopher 3
Neve | Peter Le | 1661-1729 | herald and antiquary 3
Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 3
Peacock | Thomas Love | 1785-1866 | Satirical novelist and poet 3
Pitter | Ruth | 1897-1992 | poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 3
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 3
Poynton | Arthur Blackburne | 1867-1944 | Greek scholar 3
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | 1861-1922 | Knight | Literary scholar and historian 3
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | playwright and poet 3
Sidney | Sir | Philip | 1554-1586 | Knight | Soldier, statesman, and poet 3
Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 3
Swift | Jonathan | 1667-1745 | Dean of St Patrick's Dublin, satirist 3
Swinburne | Algernon Charles | 1837-1909 | poet 3
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet 3
University of Oxford | Students 3
Wain | John Barrington | 1925-1994 | novelist, poet, literary critic 3
Wells | Herbert George | 1866-1946 | novelist 3
Woolner | Thomas | 1825-1892 | Sculptor and Poet 3
Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 2
Adams | Richard George | 1920-2016 | novelist 2
Aldwinkle | Stella | fl 1954 2
Alighieri | Dante | 1265-1321 | poet 2
Apollonius | b. 295 BC | of Rhodes | author and poet 2
Aubrey | John | 1626-1697 | antiquary, topographer 2
Barfield | Owen | 1898-1997 | author and poet 2
Baynes | Pauline Diana | 1922-2008 | illustrator 2
Belloc | Joseph Hilaire Pierre | 1870-1953 | writer and historian 2
Binyon | Laurence | 1869-1943 | Poet and art historian 2
Bladen | Peter | 1922-2001 | Poet 2
Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 2

Additional D'Orville Manuscripts

 Collection
D'Orville's manuscripts, 18th century.
Extents: 1.54 Linear metres (14 boxes)
Dates: 18th century

Additional letters, postcards and cards sent by Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, with three photographs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22131
Letters from Philip Larkin, poet and librarian, to Monica Jones, teacher and academic.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 9 Aug 1962-15 Oct 1978, n.d.

Additional papers of Adam Fox

 Collection
Additional papers of Adam Fox
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 1912-1976

Additional Papers of Edmond Malone

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

Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter Sarah Angelina Acland

 Collection
Commonplace book of H.W. Acland and visitors' book of S.A. Acland.
Extents: 0.11 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1852-1886

Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. a. 6
Agreement between Alexander Pope and Bernard Lintot, 23 March 1714.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 23 March 1714-1720

A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1276
A.K. Chesterton, 'Leopard Valley', unpublished play
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: [1944]

Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. gen. d. 33
Album containing water-colours, mainly of landscapes, with a few verses and engravings, 19th century.
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: 19th century

Album entitled 'Decorative design' by Frances A. Gunning

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 717
Album entitled 'Decorative design' by Frances A. Gunning
Extents: 113 Leaves
Dates: 1857-1875

Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 181
Album of Louisa Powles (later Mrs. Matthew Plummer) containing verse and sketches
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: 1827-1836

Album of manuscript verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22663
Album of manuscript verse, c.1840s.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1844-1848

Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates: 1838-1861, n.d.

Album of Mary Barker

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 36
Album of Mary Barker
Extents: 119 Leaves
Dates: Compiled c. 1813-1841

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

Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8418, fol. 1
Alexander Peplow, 'A Quick Lie', Jon Stallworthy poetry prize poem
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 2022

An alphabetical list of printed books in or relating to Basque

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Basque e. 3
An alphabetical list of printed books in or relating to Basque
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: Written in about A.D. 1892 (?)

An alphabetical list of Symbols of Christian Saints

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Douce e. 2
An alphabetical list of Symbols of Christian Saints
Extents: 167 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1810 by F. Douce

'Alphabetical list of the principal Sales of Literary Property and Works of Art, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: P. & S. 88
'Alphabetical list of the principal Sales of Literary Property and Works of Art, sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson...'
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1870 or 1871

'Alveare' (Alveary), a collection of 'rules of prudence, praecepts of morality, helps to conducts and to conversation', in English, French and Latin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 310
'Alveare' (Alveary), a collection of 'rules of prudence, praecepts of morality, helps to conducts and to conversation', in English, French and Latin
Extents: 144 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

Amended typescript by Bevis Hillier, 'The Hospital of St Cross, Winchester'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fols. 7-11
Amended typescript by Bevis Hillier, 'The Hospital of St Cross, Winchester'.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c. 2002]