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Indexed names
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | Poet 2
Pope | Alexander | 1688-1744 | poet 2
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 2
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 2
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 2
Southey | Robert | 1774-1843 | poet, journalist, and biographer 2
Warton | Joseph | 1722-1800 | Critic 2
Addison | Joseph | 1672-1719 | poet and statesman 1
Adimari | Lodovico | 1644-1708 | poet 1
Aldrich | Henry | fl 1685-1710 | sub-dean and dean of Christ Church 1
Atterbury | Francis | 1662-1732 | Bishop of Rochester 1
Augustine | d 604 | Saint, first Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
Beddoes | Thomas Lovell | 1803-1849 | poet and physiologist 1
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
Butt | John Everett | 1906-1965 | Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh 1
Byron | Anne Isabella | 1792-1860 | 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron | Social reformer and philanthropist 1
Byron | George Gordon | 1788-1824 | | 6th Baron Byron | poet 1
Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
Congreve | William | 1670-1729 | Dramatist 1
Cooper | J.G. | fl 1745-1762 1
Crabbe | George | 1754-1832 | Poet 1
Desaguliers | John Theophilus | 1683-1744 | natural philosopher and engineer 1
Dodsley | Robert | 1703-1764 | Poet, dramatist and bookseller 1
Dryden | John | 1631-1700 | poet, playwright, and critic 1
England and Wales | Exchequer 1
England and Wales | Royal Navy 1
Eton College 1
Fanshawe | Sir | Richard | 1608-1666 | 1st Baronet | Diplomat and Author 1
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 1
Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror 1
Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister 1
French Protestant Church 1
Gilbert | Davies | 1767-1839 | Cornish engineer, author and politician 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Gough | Richard | 1735-1809 | antiquary 1
Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville 1
Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar 1
Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely 1
Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror 1
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister 1
Huber | J G | fl 1720-1730 1
Ingram | James | 1774-1850 | Anglo Saxon Scholar Antiquary Archaeologist 1
Jenkins | Sir | Leoline | 1625-1685 | Academic and diplomat 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Jordan | William | fl. 18th century | Cornish dramatist 1
King | Ada Augusta | 1815-1852 | mathematician | wife of 1st Earl Lovelace 1
King | William | 1805-1893 | 1st Earl of Lovelace 1
L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian 1
Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate 1
Lintot | Bernard | 1675-1736 | Bookseller 1
Livius | Titus | ? 59 BC-AD 17 | Roman historian 1
Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher 1
Malone | Edmond | 1741-1812 | Critic and Author 1
Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer 1
Marsais | César Chesneau | du | 1676-1756 | lawyer, philosopher and writer 1
Mason | William | 1724-1797 | poet 1
Milbanke | Ralph Gordon Noel King | 2nd Earl of Lovelace | 1839-1906 1
Milbanke-Noel | Judith | 1751-1822 | nee Noel, afterwards Milbanke | wife of Sir Ralph Milbanke-Noel 1
Milbanke-Noel | Sir | Ralph | 1747-1825 | | 6th Baronet | MP for Durham 1
Montagu | Montagu | 1787-1863 | Captain RN, Author, and Autograph Collector 1
Morgan | Mary | 1758-1847 | nee Warton | Daughter of Joseph Warton 1
Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works 1
Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary 1
Nichols | John Bowyer | 1779-1863 | printer and antiquary 1
Ovidius Naso | Publius | 43 BC-AD 17 | Roman poet 1
Oxford University | Brasenose College 1
Parry | William | fl. 1741 | Vicar of Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire 1
Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary 1
Pleydell | Sir | Mark Stuart | 1692-1768 | 1st Baronet Pleydell of Coleshill, Berkshire 1
Potenger | John | 1647-1733 | legal official and writer 1
Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph 1
Prior | Matthew | 1664-1721 | poet and diplomat 1
Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 1
Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman 1
Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London 1
Royal College of Physicians 1
Sallustius Crispus | Gaius | ? 86-? 34 BC | Roman historian 1
Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet 1
Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Scaliger | Julius Caesar | fl. 18th century 1
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 1
Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
Shelley | Sir | Bysshe | 1731-1815 | 1st Baronet 1
Shelley | Timothy | 1753-1844 | Sir | 2nd Baronet and MP 1
Shelley | family 1
Shelley | family | baronets | Castle Goring 1
Shippen | Robert | 1675-1745 | Principal of Brasenose College Oxford 1
Skinner | John | fl. 1789-1814 1
Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian 1
St Paul's Cathedral 1
Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 1
Stokes | Whitley | 1830-1909 | Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar 1
Stubbes | George | d. 1737 | Author 1

Guard-book of miscellaneous papers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 247
Guard-book of miscellaneous papers
Extents: 179 Leaves
Dates: 16th-20th century

Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 80
Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates: 1781

The Howard Gray Swann collection of Warton Family Papers

 Collection
Papers of the Warton family, 1688-1864, including Thomas Warton (1688-1745), Joseph Warton (1722-1800), Thomas Warton (1728-1790).
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1688-1864

An index to the first words of epigrams in the Greek Anthology

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 239
An index to the first words of epigrams in the Greek Anthology
Extents: 84 Leaves
Dates: Written about the middle of the 18th cent.

'Jo. Guern. Huberi Variæ Lectiones et Notæ ad Catonis Disticha...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. f. 2
'Jo. Guern. Huberi Variæ Lectiones et Notæ ad Catonis Disticha...'
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1720-1730 by J. G. Huber

Latin notes on part of the Poeticè of Julius Caesar Scaliger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 273
Latin notes on part of the Poeticè of Julius Caesar Scaliger
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

Letters, correspondence, and poems collected by Professor C. H. Firth

 Collection
Letters, correspondence, and poems collected by Professor C. H. Firth
Extents: 0.55 Linear metres (5 boxes)
Dates: 17th-19th century

Letters from J. G. Cooper to Robert Dodsley

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 174
Letters from J. G. Cooper to Robert Dodsley
Extents: 104 pages
Dates: 1745-1762

Letters, poems and translations by John Potenger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 161
Letters, poems and translations by John Potenger (1647-1733).
Extents: 261 pages
Dates: 1647-1733

Malone Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Edmond Malone (1741-1812) critic and author
Extents: 3.41 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: c.1600-19th cent.

Manuscript commonplace book of Latin and Greek epigrams and verse, assembled by Mark Stuart Pleydell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23624
Manuscript volume of Greek and Latin epigrams and poetry compiled by Mark Stuart Pleydell.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 17 Nov 1703

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. Robert Shippen

 Collection
Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. Robert Shippen
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: Chiefly written in about 1680-1740

Miscellaneous papers of general and political interest, mainly English verse, mid-18th cent., copied by various hands on separate sheets

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 48
Miscellaneous papers of general and political interest, mainly English verse, mid-18th cent., copied by various hands on separate sheets
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: Mid 18th century

Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 105
Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose, chiefly in English, some of which are printed in Dryden's Miscellany Poems, written in the first half of the 18th century.
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates: written in the first half of the 18th century

Montagu Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Captain Montagu, 15th-19th century.
Extents: 3.52 Linear metres (62 boxes)
Dates: 15th-19th century

Oxford pieces, chiefly Christ Church exercises in Latin prose and verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. c. 14
Oxford pieces, chiefly Christ Church exercises in Latin prose and verse
Extents: 152 pages
Dates: Made up of papers written in about 1685-1710 at Oxford

Paraphrase in verse of the penitential psalms by Lodovico Adimari

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. c. 71
Paraphrase in verse of the penitential psalms by Lodovico Adimari, 18th century.
Extents: 37 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

Poem, mid-18th century, headed 'Pièce de Voltaire'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. French d. 34
Poem, mid-18th century, headed 'Pièce de Voltaire', beg. 'Combien d'objets divers, plus ou moins méprisables'.
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: mid 18th century

Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift

 Collection
Poems and Letters of Jonathan Swift.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1714-1733

Poems and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.

 Collection
Poems and other interesting Memorials of Richard Gough, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Written in about 1740-1805, almost entirely by R. Gough