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16th century 154
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Humanities 123
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x - 15th century 33
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Literature -- 20th century 31
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Books 27
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Oxford (England) 18
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Commonplace books 17
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Music 15
x - 12th century 15
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x - 13th century 14
Art 13
Authors, English 13
Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
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Italian literature 13
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English language 12
German literature 12
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Lectures and lecturing 11
London (England) 11
Philosophy 11
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Prayers 11
Latin poetry 10
Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
Literary criticism 9
Northamptonshire (England) 9
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 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 -- Intellectual life 8
University of Oxford -- Students 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

Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 135
Collections by John Bruce for his edition of The poetical works of William Cowper
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: c. 1865

Collections chiefly for the history of the cathedral of Rochester and its possessions, made by dr. John Denne, archdn. of Rochester (d. 1767)

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Kent c. 1
Collections chiefly for the history of the cathedral of Rochester and its possessions, made by dr. John Denne, archdn. of Rochester (d. 1767)
Extents: 267 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century by J. an S. Denne

'Collections for an account of ... the site, siege, sale, & destruction of the Original Palace of Woodstock, by V[aughan] T[homas]'

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon b. 15
'Collections for an account of ... the site, siege, sale, & destruction of the Original Palace of Woodstock, by V[aughan] T[homas]'
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1850 chiefly by V. Thomas

Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers

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Collections for biographical and bibliographical notices of Oxford Writers from the point where Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses leaves off, to about 1800, with additions to about 1815, written in about 1780-1815 by J. Gutch.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: c.1780-1815

'Collections for the Grammatical Analysis of the Poem of LaЗamon. By Sir F. Madden, 1838-1848'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 8
'Collections for the Grammatical Analysis of the Poem of LaЗamon. By Sir F. Madden, 1838-1848'
Extents: 240 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1838-1848 by sir F. Madden

Collections for the history of Essex by Foote Gower

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Essex b. 4
Collections for the history of Essex by Foote Gower
Extents: 231 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th century chiefly by F. Gower

Collections relating to the baronage, mainly the descent of titles through women

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 141
Collections relating to the baronage, mainly the descent of titles through women, early 17th century.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: early 17th century

Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 135
Colour photocopies of a selection of manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien from the collection at Marquette University, Milwaukee.
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: 17-23 Aug 1992

Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind')

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 158
Colour photocopy of C.S. Lewis's story 'Light' (a version of 'The Man Born Blind').
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

A combined diary and account book of a French refugee

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 56
A combined diary and account book of a French refugee
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1688-1690 in England

'The Comedies of Terence, translated into English by Richard Gough Esq, 1751. Mem. The Heautontimoroumonus is missing.'

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. e. 1
'The Comedies of Terence, translated into English by Richard Gough Esq, 1751. Mem. The Heautontimoroumonus is missing.'
Extents: 199 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1751 by R. Gough

Comic dialogue, 'Oranges or Lemons? Or the Philosophy of Life Exposed. By Oceana Blanche Lega-Weekes. London Printed and Published at the Haarlem Press West Kensington by Celia Lega-Weekes'

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Comic dialogue, 'Oranges or Lemons? Or the Philosophy of Life Exposed. By Oceana Blanche Lega-Weekes. London Printed and Published at the Haarlem Press West Kensington by Celia Lega-Weekes'
Extents: 0.1 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1892-1902

'Comment. in Epist. [Pauli] ad Timoth.', an anonymous commentary on the first Epistle to Timothy

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 102
'Comment. in Epist. [Pauli] ad Timoth.', an anonymous commentary on the first Epistle to Timothy
Extents: 355 Leaves
Dates: Written late in the 16th century in Spain (?)

Commentaries on the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes

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Shelfmark: MS. Auct. E. 2. 17
Commentaries on the Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes
Extents: 293 Leaves
Dates: 16th century

'Commentarii editi a patre religiosissimo doctoreque sapientissimo Sebastiano Barradas in sacrosancta Iesu Christi Evangelia'

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 112
'Commentarii editi a patre religiosissimo doctoreque sapientissimo Sebastiano Barradas in sacrosancta Iesu Christi Evangelia'
Extents: 200 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1585 at Evora (?) in Portugal

The commentary of David Kimchi

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 27
The commentary of David Kimchi
Extents: 99 Leaves
Dates: Written A.D. 1541-1542 in England

A Common Place Book, consisting chiefly of extracts from Latin authors

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. e. 26
A Common Place Book, consisting chiefly of extracts from Latin authors
Extents: 566 pages
Dates: Written in the 17th century in England

A common place book ('Liber A'), containing extracts from biblical, classical, and English authors

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 28
A common place book ('Liber A'), containing extracts from biblical, classical, and English authors
Extents: 649 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly in about 1620-1630 (?)

A common place book ('Liber C'), containing extracts chiefly from Latin classical authors and from modern historical works in Latin and English

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. b. 6
A common place book ('Liber C')
Extents: 466 pages
Dates: Written chiefly in about 1600-1630

A Common Place Book of Edward Pudsey

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 3
A Common Place Book of Edward Pudsey
Extents: 104 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1600-1615