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x - 15th century 33
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Religious literature, English 24
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x - 14th century 18
Classical literature -- Study and teaching 17
Commonplace books 17
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English poetry -- 21st century 16
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Letters -- 20th century 16
English literature -- 18th century 15
Music 15
x - 12th century 15
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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
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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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Medicine 8
Oxfordshire (England) 8
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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

C.S. Lewis, photocopies of letters to Mrs. Jessup

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Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 136
C.S. Lewis, photocopies of letters to Mrs. Jessup.
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: 1950-1957

Curt Schererz, Studien zu den Ortsnamen von Cambridgeshire, offprint

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 1570
Curt Schererz, Studien zu den Ortsnamen von Cambridgeshire, offprint
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

Cyclostyled copy of a sermon preached by C. S. Lewis, 'The Weight of Glory', 8 June 1941, in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 44-48
Cyclostyled copy of a sermon preached by C. S. Lewis, 'The Weight of Glory', 8 June 1941, in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: 8 Jun 1941

Cyclostyled typescript of Adam’s Island, a play by Nevill Coghill

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8259
Cyclostyled typescript of Nevill Coghill's Adam's Island, A Play, signed and dated by the author, with covering letter
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 1937

Cyclostyled typescript, with holograph notes, of a poem by Fania Marinoff 'To Carlo (1948)'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fol. 67
Cyclostyled typescript, with holograph notes, of a poem by Fania Marinoff 'To Carlo (1948)'.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1948

Cyclostyled typescripts of four 20th-cent. plays, possibly performed by the Meadow Players at Oxford Playhouse

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6058
Cyclostyled typescripts of four 20th-cent. plays, possibly performed by the Meadow Players at Oxford Playhouse.
Extents: 281 Leaves
Dates: 20th century

The Cyropaedia of Xenophon, translation exercise by Richard Gough

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 107
The Cyropaedia of Xenophon, translation exercise by Richard Gough, written about A.D. 1750.
Extents: 514 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1750

D. Phil thesis by Margaret A. Edwards titled 'Barbara Pym: The pleasures and virtues of uncertainty'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6651
D. Phil thesis by Margaret A. Edwards titled 'Barbara Pym: The pleasures and virtues of uncertainty'.
Extents: 307 Leaves
Dates: 1998

Dante di giorno in giorno . . . Raccolta-diano di pensien (Florence, 1894), used by Edward Moore as an autograph album

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Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. g. 1
Dante di giorno in giorno . . . Raccolta-diano di pensien (Florence, 1894), used by Edward Moore as an autograph album.
Extents: 222 Leaves
Dates: c.1835-1916

'De expeditione in Ream insulam'

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Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 95
'De expeditione in Ream insulam'
Extents: 165 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after 1630

'Dè. Rê. Aethereö-Terréâ'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 76
'Dè. Rê. Aethereö-Terréâ'
Extents: 47 leaves, in double columns
Dates: Written about A.D. 1866

Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 77
Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 23 Jan. 1646/7

A defence of John Balliol and the history of his family, by J. H. Burn, typescript

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 409
A defence of John Balliol and the history of his family, by J. H. Burn, typescript, 1974.
Extents: 167 Leaves
Dates: 1974

A defence of Protestantism against a Roman Catholic attack

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 135
A defence of Protestantism against a Roman Catholic attack
Extents: 67 Leaves
Dates: Written perhaps in the second half of the 16th century

'A delineation of Northamptonshire, with certain necessary Observations thearein by John Norden'

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants e. 17
'A delineation of Northamptonshire, with certain necessary Observations thearein by John Norden'
Extents: 52 pages
Dates: Written about A.D. 1595 (?)

Descriptions of Ireland and of the lord deputy of Ireland's household

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 39
Descriptions of Ireland and of the lord deputy of Ireland's household
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates: Qritten at the close of the 16th century in two hands

Descriptive catalogue of the Spanish books in the Godolphin Collection in the library of Wadham College

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 763
Descriptive catalogue of the Spanish books in the Godolphin Collection in the library of Wadham College.
Extents: 174 Leaves
Dates: 1968

'The Destruction of Troy ... rendered in English from book II of the Æneis of Virgil'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 1
'The Destruction of Troy ... rendered in English from book II of the Æneis of Virgil', written about A.D. 1885 (?) by H. Edwards.
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: written about A.D. 1885 (?) by H. Edwards

A detailed account of queen Elizabeth's demisable revenue

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 42
A detailed account of queen Elizabeth's demisable revenue
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1580

Devotional and didactic writings of Harriet Rodd, 1829-1854, bound as volume four of her 'Reflections'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 101
Devotional and didactic writings of Harriet Rodd, 1829-1854, bound as volume four of her 'Reflections'.
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates: 1837-1854