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Literature 861
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18th century 282
English literature 250
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16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 123
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21st century 69
Greek literature 69
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History 45
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Literature -- Translations 45
Classical literature 43
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Antiquarians 40
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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
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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
Publishers and publishing 8
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

Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 119, fols. 127-140
Copies of three letters from Andrew Marvell.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1670-1674

Copies of twenty-one English hymns, partly by dr. Isaac Watts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 7
Copies of twenty-one English hymns, partly by dr. Isaac Watts
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: Written in about 1830-1840

Copies of works by Themistius Euphrada

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. inf. 2. 4
Copies of works by Themistius Euphrada, written in A.D. 1518 by Leonellus Leonus Patavii
Extents: 158 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1518 by Leonellus Leonus Patavii

Copies of works of Xenophon

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 53
Copies of works of Xenophon.
Extents: 53 Leaves
Dates: originals dated 11th, 13th and 14th century

Copy by Charles Hornby, 1705, of 'An account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism with the life of Mahomet...'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 309
Copy by Charles Hornby, 1705, of 'An account of the rise and progress of Mahometanism with the life of Mahomet...'
Extents: 216 pages
Dates: 1705

Copy by Edmund Malone of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'A painter's journal'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 145
Copy by Edmund Malone of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'A painter's journal'
Extents: 186 Leaves
Dates: 1871

Copy by William A'Court, Baron Heytesbury, of his play 'Montalto, a tragedy in five acts'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 23
Copy by William A'Court, Baron Heytesbury, of his play 'Montalto, a tragedy in five acts'
Extents: 86 pages
Dates: 1803-1814

Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 353
Copy, in several hands, of The provok'd husband: or A journey to London, by Sir John Vanbrugh and Colley Cibber
Extents: 166 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

A copy made by the Rev. Andrew Clark in Apr.-July 1893 of a MS. of Ballads marked 119 D 44 in Lord Macclesfield's Library at Shirburn Castle

 Collection
A copy made by the Rev. Andrew Clark in Apr.-July 1893 of a MS. of Ballads marked 119 D 44 in Lord Macclesfield's Library at Shirburn Castle
Extents: 0.15 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: Written in 1893 by A. Clark

Copy of a 15th- or 16th-century Castilian translation of the French medieval romance, entitled 'Libro de la destruicion de Ierusalem'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Spanish e. 8
Copy, 17th century, of a 15th- or 16th-century Castilian translation of the French medieval romance, entitled 'Libro de la destruicion de Ierusalem'.
Extents: 85 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Copy of a dialogue concerning sin and grace, 1667

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. d. 52
Copy of a dialogue concerning sin and grace, 1667.
Extents: 123 Leaves
Dates: 1667

A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Gen. Top. 8°. 628
A copy of 'A Direction for the English Traviller' (Lond. 1636)
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1636

A copy of a letter from 'R. B.'

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon d. 5
A copy of a letter from 'R. B.'
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1728

Copy of a report prepared by a document examiner, Nancy Cole, An Investigation into the Authorship of The Dark Tower: a Work Published Posthumously and Attributed to C.S. Lewis

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5782
Copy of a report prepared by a document examiner, Nancy Cole, An Investigation into the Authorship of The Dark Tower: a Work Published Posthumously and Attributed to C.S. Lewis.
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: 1995

A copy of a sermon on 2 Tim. ii. 19

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 2
A copy of a sermon on 2 Tim. ii. 19
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1810

Copy of a survey of the King's 'western castles and garrisons' made by Sir Edward Sherburne

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 238
Copy of a survey of the King's 'western castles and garrisons' made by Sir Edward Sherburne, 1661.
Extents: 53 Leaves
Dates: 1661

A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)

 Collection
A copy of Alexander Pope's edition of Shakespeare's Works (6 vols., Lond. 1725)
Extents: 0.66 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates: 1725

Copy of an English translation made between 1594 and 1604 by Sir Arthur Atye from Antonio Perez Pedacos de historia, o relaciones ('Leon', [London, 1594])

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 239
Copy of an English translation made between 1594 and 1604 by Sir Arthur Atye from Antonio Perez Pedacos de historia, o relaciones ('Leon', [London, 1594]).
Extents: 111 Leaves
Dates: 1594-1604

A copy of an indenture quadripartite

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Norfolk b. 4
A copy of an indenture quadripartite
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: Written soon after A.D. 1693

A copy of Anthony Wood's notes about Dorchester abbey church

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon e. 3
A copy of Anthony Wood's notes about Dorchester abbey church
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 18th century