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Literature 861
20th century 572
19th century 390
17th century 303
18th century 282
English literature 250
Poetry 157
16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 123
Letters 120
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21st century 69
Greek literature 69
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History 45
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Literature -- Translations 45
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English poetry 42
Antiquarians 40
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Church 37
English poetry -- 20th century 37
Children's literature -- 20th century 33
x - 15th century 33
Authors 32
Theology 32
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Books 27
Correspondence 26
Manuscripts 26
Playwriting -- Drama 25
Religious literature, English 24
Novelists -- 19th century 22
Royal family 21
Novelists -- 20th century 19
Diaries 18
Oxford (England) 18
x - 14th century 18
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 17
Commonplace books 17
Sermons 17
English poetry -- 21st century 16
Essays 16
Letters -- 20th century 16
English literature -- 18th century 15
Music 15
x - 12th century 15
Authors, English -- 20th century 14
Biography 14
Law 14
x - 13th century 14
Art 13
Authors, English 13
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
Photographs 11
Politics and Government 11
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
Liturgies 8
Medicine 8
Oxfordshire (England) 8
Poetry -- 20th century 8
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Scholars 8
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

A sermon by the rev. Thomas William Lancaster, M.A.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon e. 2
A sermon by the rev. Thomas William Lancaster, M.A.
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1838

A sermon on 1 Thess. v. 17

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 11
A sermon on 1 Thess. v. 17
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1796 (?)

A sermon on Ps. cxix. 71

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 12
A sermon on Ps. cxix. 71
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1751 (?)

A sermon or treatise on tithes

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 55
A sermon or treatise on tithes
Extents: 100 pages
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1631

'A Sermon Preached at James City in Virginia the 23d of April 1686

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 31
'A Sermon Preached at James City in Virginia the 23d of April 1686
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1686, in Virginia, by D. Pead

Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2724, fols. 51-57
Seven poems written for John Wain on the occasion of his marriage
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates: 1947

Seventeen letters from the rev. Gilbert White of Selborne to archdeacon Ralph Churton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 9
Seventeen letters from the rev. Gilbert White of Selborne to archdeacon Ralph Churton
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1779-1793 by G. White

Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)

 Collection
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Extents: 82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Dates: 1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)

A short account of ancient history

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 95
A short account of ancient history
Extents: 390 pages
Dates: Written in A.D. 1744 by T. Delafield

Short amatory poems, ballads, songs, etc., partly Scotch

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 8
Short amatory poems, ballads, songs, etc., partly Scotch
Extents: 66 Leaves
Dates: Written about the middle of the 18th century in several hands

A short catalogue of the Greek and Latin MSS. of Lincoln college

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon e. 50
A short catalogue of the Greek and Latin MSS. of Lincoln college
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1800

Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 26
Signature, photograph and lock of hair of A. C. Swinburne.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates: c. 1837-1909

Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 16
Signed copy of two sonnets by A. C. Swinburne addressed to John Nichol
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: May 1881, 1916

Silhouettes cut in blue-grey paper by James Allen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 696
Silhouettes cut in blue-grey paper by James Allen
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: 1879

Sir Balthazar Gerbier's 'Relation ... for the cleering of som particullers which have by some been misunderstood during the raignes of King James and King Charles'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 184
Sir Balthazar Gerbier's 'Relation ... for the cleering of som particullers which have by some been misunderstood during the raignes of King James and King Charles', in 1648
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1648

Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot

 Single Item
Six letters from John le Carré to Mrs Chris Boot, 1992-2019.
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: 1992-2019

Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Misc. 6, fols. 17-27
Six letters from John Masefield to Barbara Evans née Hay-Cooper, c.1930-1958.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: c.1930-1958

Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors

 Collection
Slip-index of manuscripts of Latin classical authors, compiled by Roger Mynors
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: late 20th cent.

Slips of paper, mounted in a volume

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Norfolk c. 1
Slips of paper, mounted in a volume
Extents: 227 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first quarter of the 18th century by P. Le Neve

Small account books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants f. 6
Small account books
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1752-1812