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x - 15th century 33
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Literature -- 20th century 31
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x - 14th century 18
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Letters -- 20th century 16
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Music 15
x - 12th century 15
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x - 13th century 14
Art 13
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Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
Ireland 13
Italian literature 13
University of Oxford 13
English language 12
German literature 12
English poetry -- Women authors 11
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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Oxfordshire (England) 8
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Accounts 7
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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

Fair copies of verse, mid-17th century, 'Divine poems' and paraphrases in verse from the Bible

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 51
Fair copies of verse, mid-17th century, 'Divine poems' and paraphrases in verse from the Bible.
Extents: 192 pages
Dates: Mid-17th century

Fair copy by A. C. Swinburne of 'Hymn to Proserpine'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 24
Fair copy by A. C. Swinburne of 'Hymn to Proserpine'
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: c. 1866

Fair copy by A. J. N. de Rosny, prepared for publication but apparently unpublished, of his work Mes Loisirs

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. French d. 14
Fair copy by A. J. N. de Rosny, prepared for publication but apparently unpublished, of his work Mes Loisirs, 1814.
Extents: 263 pages
Dates: 1814

Fair copy by John Lewis of 'Some account of the life of ... John Wallis ... Savilian Professor of Geometry'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 283
Fair copy by John Lewis of 'Some account of the life of ... John Wallis ... Savilian Professor of Geometry'
Extents: 90 pages
Dates: Before 1735

Fair copy, in an italic script, of 'A treatise of embassages compiled by Henry -, 1584' (name crossed out), in twenty-four chapters, beginning 'Among the treatises of civill affaires'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 238
Fair copy, in an italic script, of 'A treatise of embassages compiled by Henry -, 1584' (name crossed out), in twenty-four chapters, beginning 'Among the treatises of civill affaires'
Extents: 82 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 114
Fair copy of a prose romance 'Harold or the castle of Morford' by Robert Southey
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates: n.d.

Fair copy of 'A sett of satyricall eclogues, nine in number, according to the number of 'muses: made by Richard Pipe of Wallingwells [Notts.] Esqr. 1647', dedicated to Clifford Clifton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 22
Fair copy of 'A sett of satyricall eclogues, nine in number, according to the number of 'muses: made by Richard Pipe of Wallingwells [Notts.] Esqr. 1647', dedicated to Clifford Clifton
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: 1647

Fair copy of an English translation by Elizabeth Noel, Countess of Gainsborough, of Charles Drelincourt's Catechisme

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 152
Fair copy of an English translation by Elizabeth Noel, Countess of Gainsborough, of Charles Drelincourt's Catechisme, 17th century.
Extents: 148 pages
Dates: 17th century

Fair copy of C. J. Smyth, 'Six letters on singing', as published (Norwich, 1817)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 464
Fair copy of C. J. Smyth, 'Six letters on singing', as published (Norwich, 1817)
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates: c. 1814-1817

Fair copy of Jacob Boehme, The Way to Christ, translated by John Sparrow

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 103
Fair copy of Jacob Boehme, The Way to Christ, translated by John Sparrow, 1635.
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: 1635

Fair copy of Peter Salvin's English translation of The kingdom of God in the soul, by Joannes Evangelista of Belduke, 1650, published, Paris

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. f. 21
Fair copy of Peter Salvin's English translation of The kingdom of God in the soul, by Joannes Evangelista of Belduke, 1650, published, Paris.
Extents: 184 Leaves
Dates: 1657

Fair copy of poems, and translations from French, Italian, Spanish and German poems, by A. R.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 117
Fair copy of poems, and translations from French, Italian, Spanish and German poems, by A. R.
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: early 20th century

Fair copy of satirical poem entitled 'The Pall Mall Apollo'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 32
Fair copy of satirical poem entitled 'The Pall Mall Apollo'
Extents: 60 Leaves
Dates: c. 1815

Fair copy of 'The storm of Corneelis' by T. W. Taylor

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 54
Fair copy of 'The storm of Corneelis' by T. W. Taylor
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: c. 1812

Fair manuscript copy by Peter Bladen of two acrostic sonnets, 'William Spooner' and 'Bodleian Library'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 64-65
Fair manuscript copy by Peter Bladen of two acrostic sonnets, 'William Spooner' and 'Bodleian Library'.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 1989-1990

Fair manuscript copy by Ruth Pitter of her poem 'The Bush Baby'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fol. 63
Fair manuscript copy by Ruth Pitter of her poem 'The Bush Baby'
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1981

Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph

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Shelfmark: MS. 21785
Fair typescript draft of Persephone by Jenny Joseph, c.1986.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1986

'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 7
'Fair Virtue the Mistresse of Philarete, written by George Wither'
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1708

Fairfax Manuscripts

 Collection
Fairfax Manuscripts
Extents: 3.08 Linear metres (28 boxes)
Dates: 12th-17th century

A farce, 'Blue devils', by George Colman the younger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 583
A farce, 'Blue devils', by George Colman the younger
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 1798-1808