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Literature -- 20th century 31
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x - 13th century 14
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Italian literature 13
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Prayers 11
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Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
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Northamptonshire (England) 9
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Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
Basque literature 8
Catholic Church 8
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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

Common-place books of Dr. Samuel Pegge the elder

 Collection
Common-place books of Dr. Samuel Pegge the elder, written chiefly in about 1750-1790.
Extents: 2.42 Linear metres (22 boxes)
Dates: about 1750-1790

A commonplace book chiefly of derivations of Latin words

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. V. 1. subtus 1
A commonplace book chiefly of derivations of Latin words
Extents: 185 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 17th century

Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23614
Commonplace book compiled by Thomas Vining Whidborne including original and collected verse
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1822-1852

Commonplace book containing contemporary Spanish prose and verse and classical Latin extracts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Spanish e. 9
The commonplace book comprises four discernible sections. The commonplacing sections are in two sections, either side of Psalle et Sile. Poems by Miguel Ladrón and Fulvio Testi are incorporated into Eva y Ave, beginning on fols. 31r and 49v respectively. This description follows the original foliation as it appears in the manuscript. The foliation underwent changes at the hand of the author himself, and shows evidence that he reordered...
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: Early 18th cent.

A commonplace book, in Latin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. V. 1. subt. 3
A commonplace book, in Latin
Extents: 253 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 17th century

A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 284
A commonplace book of extracts, chiefly light poetry, from English literature, with a few medical and cookery receipts, business addresses, etc., written about A.D. 1820-1830.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1820-1830

Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 20930
Commonplace book of Florence Mary Tolkien.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1877-1888

Commonplace book of religious passages

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12617
Commonplace book of religious passages.
Extents: 1 box (1 volume)
Dates: 1787-1848

Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 2409
Commonplace book of Thomas Chapman
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1762-1770

A commonplace book with index

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. V. 1. subt. 2
A commonplace book with index
Extents: 350 pages
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

The Communion office, with private devotions proper to be us'd at the sacrament collected from several books by Henry Dawnay of Christ Church, Oxford, 1711

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. f. 42
The Communion office, with private devotions proper to be us'd at the sacrament collected from several books by Henry Dawnay of Christ Church, Oxford, 1711.
Extents: 48 pages
Dates: 1711, 1715

'Comoedia D. Guilielmus Dux Aquitaniae ...

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 33
'Comoedia D. Guilielmus Dux Aquitaniae ...
Extents: 93 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1614 at Brussels

Comparative tables of Saints' Days

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 211
Comparative tables of Saints' Days
Extents: 36 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1845

A composite list of printed books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 243
A composite list of printed books
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: Written about 1680-1690

Concordances Compiled by H.W. Greene

 Collection
Concordances Compiled by H.W. Greene, 1902-1921.
Extents: 3.95 Linear metres (42 boxes)
Dates: 1902-21

'constans defensio ... Deliberationis de Christiana Reformatione...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 97
'constans defensio ... Deliberationis de Christiana Reformatione...'
Extents: 404 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1600

Contemporary account of debates in the House of Commons concerning the militia and supply

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 210
Contemporary account of debates in the House of Commons concerning the militia and supply, 9-20 November 1685.
Extents: 82 pages
Dates: 9-20 November 1685

Contemporary copies of occasional verse, headed 'Poems and etc. by several hands'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 24
Contemporary copies of occasional verse, headed 'Poems and etc. by several hands'
Extents: 50 pages
Dates: 1680-1690

Contemporary copy (before 1657) of Robert Codrington's translation of 'The memoriall of Queene Marguaret of Valois' with notes by Edmund Ferrers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 321
Contemporary copy (before 1657) of Robert Codrington's translation of 'The memoriall of Queene Marguaret of Valois' with notes by Edmund Ferrers.
Extents: 266 pages
Dates: before 1657

Contemporary copy in an unidentified hand of devotions of Sir Henry Herbert

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. f. 27
Contemporary copy in an unidentified hand of devotions of Sir Henry Herbert
Extents: 47 Leaves
Dates: 20th January 1632