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x - 15th century 33
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x - 14th century 18
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Letters -- 20th century 16
English literature -- 18th century 15
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x - 12th century 15
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x - 13th century 14
Art 13
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Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
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Italian literature 13
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English language 12
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Philosophy 11
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 9
Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
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Catholic Church 8
Drama 8
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English literature -- 21st century 8
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Oxfordshire (England) 8
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Academic writing 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

Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 223
Contemporary copy of a treatise Judicature in parliament, c.1625.
Extents: 146 pages
Dates: c.1625

Contemporary copy of the 'Commentarii in organum Aristotelis' of Jean Druet, professor of philosophy at the Protestant academy of Saumur

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. d. 19
Contemporary copy of the 'Commentarii in organum Aristotelis' of Jean Druet, professor of philosophy at the Protestant academy of Saumur, 1628-1680.
Extents: 252 pages
Dates: 17th century

Contemporary fair copy of 'A continuation of the historical accompt of the ... Order of the Garter'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 29
Contemporary fair copy of 'A continuation of the historical accompt of the ... Order of the Garter'
Extents: 91 Leaves
Dates: Oct 1664-Aug 1685

Contemporary fair copy of John Sheffield, 'The character of a Tory in answere to that of a Trimmer ... 1684'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 129
Contemporary fair copy of John Sheffield, 'The character of a Tory in answere to that of a Trimmer ... 1684'
Extents: 38 Leaves
Dates: c. 1684

Cookery receipts for sweetmeats and confectionery by mrs. Mary Eales

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 38
Cookery receipts for sweetmeats and confectionery by mrs. Mary Eales
Extents: 121 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

Copies and photographs, taken '... in 1888 by F. C. Conybeare

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Shelfmark: MS. Gr. class. e. 19
Copies and photographs, taken '... in 1888 by F. C. Conybeare
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: Chiefly written in 1888 by F. C. Conybeare

Copies by an amanuensis of poems by George Dyer, 'The blind man's legacy'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 21
Copies by an amanuensis of poems by George Dyer, 'The blind man's legacy'
Extents: 78 Leaves
Dates: 1836

Copies by Thomas Carte of printed political pamphlets and broadsheets, early 18th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 374
Copies by Thomas Carte of printed political pamphlets and broadsheets, early 18th century.
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: Early 18th century

Copies of about fifty papers chiefly relating to English history

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 966
Copies of about fifty papers chiefly relating to English history
Extents: 684 pages
Dates: Written chiefly about A.D. 1610

Copies of John Synge diary entries, relating to Oxford University Writers Club and Ludovic Kennedy

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2694
Copies of John Synge diary entries, relating to Oxford University Writers Club and Ludovic Kennedy.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 1947-8

Copies of Latin academical exercises, letters and poems

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 109
Copies of Latin academical exercises, letters and poems, written about A. D. 1635-1654 by G. Stradling and others at Oxford.
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates: written about A. D. 1635-1654 by G. Stradling and others at Oxford

Copies of Latin law reports of nineteen cases relating to property in England

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 164
Copies of Latin law reports of nineteen cases relating to property in England
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 17th century

Copies of literary and historical papers by a Mr. Perrie of London

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 641
Copies of literary and historical papers by a Mr. Perrie of London
Extents: 34 pages
Dates: Mid-18th century

Copies of notes by L. C. Valckenaer

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. e. 6
Copies of notes by L. C. Valckenaer, written in the second half of the 18th century in Holland.
Extents: 51 Leaves
Dates: written in the second half of the 18th century in Holland

Copies of old Cornish plays

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Copies of old Cornish plays.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: written in more than one hand, perhaps late in the 17th and early in the 18th century

Copies of plans of several parts of Northamptonshire

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants a. 1
Copies of plans of several parts of Northamptonshire
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 19th century perhaps by S. Deacon

Copies of public documents issued by Charles ii when Prince of Wales

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 895
Copies of public documents issued by Charles ii when Prince of Wales
Extents: 180 pages
Dates: Written about the middle of the 17th century

Copies of Quaker memoirs and devotional writings

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 257
Copies of Quaker memoirs and devotional writings
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: Late 18th century

Copies of seven letters from the rev. C. P. Golightly to his uncle

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 195
Copies of seven letters from the rev. C. P. Golightly to his uncle
Extents: 36 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1870-1880

Copies of Spanish documents in various handwritings

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Shelfmark: MS. Span. e. 1
Copies of Spanish documents in various handwritings
Extents: 263 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 18th century