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Literature 861
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17th century 303
18th century 282
English literature 250
Poetry 157
16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 123
Letters 120
Religion 114
21st century 69
Greek literature 69
Poets 61
History 45
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Literature -- Translations 45
Classical literature 43
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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
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

Draft of 'Atropos' by John Buxton

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 147
Draft of 'Atropos' by John Buxton
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: 1943-1944

Draft of Max Beerbohm’s account of his first meetings with H.B. Irving, together with two cartoons

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. b. 2173
A draft of Max Beerbohm’s account of his first meetings with H.B. Irving, elder son of Sir Henry Irving, together with two colotype prints of Beerbohm cartoons depicting H.B. Irving.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1920s

Draft of 'The Earl of Strafford. 1593-1641' by C. V. Wedgwood

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2972
Draft of 'The Earl of Strafford. 1593-1641' by C. V. Wedgwood
Extents: 461 Leaves
Dates: c.1935

Draft of the Enclosure Award for King's Sutton

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Northants a. 4
Draft of the Enclosure Award for King's Sutton
Extents: 107 Leaves
Dates: Written in about 1805

Draft treatise by John Trussell entitled 'An epitome of the lawes of the Forrest'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. e. 344
Draft treatise by John Trussell entitled 'An epitome of the lawes of the Forrest', early 17th century.
Extents: 87 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Draft (watermarks 1827, 1828) by E. W. Lane of 'Description of Egypt'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 234
Draft (watermarks 1827, 1828) by E. W. Lane of 'Description of Egypt'
Extents: 204 Leaves
Dates: c. 1827-1836

Drafts and fair copies of poems by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2047
Drafts and fair copies of poems by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz, n.d.
Extents: 94 Leaves
Dates: 1914-32, n.d.

Drafts by Robert Main of articles on astronomy

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 94
Draft by Robert Main
Extents: 676 Leaves
Dates: c. 1808-1878

Drafts of poems by John Freeman

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 15
Drafts of poems by John Freeman
Extents: 101 Leaves
Dates: c. 1924

Drafts of two papers by dr. William Bromet

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 203
Drafts of two papers by dr. William Bromet
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: Written early in the 19th century

'Dunkirk in the seventeenth century', by R. G. E. Wood (Stanhope Historical Prize essay, 1960)

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 398
'Dunkirk in the seventeenth century', by R. G. E. Wood (Stanhope Historical Prize essay, 1960).
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: 1960

Dutch printed Bible: Biblia, met verklaringen

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Shelfmark: N 2.1 Th.
Dutch printed Bible: Biblia, met verklaringen
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1649

'A dutifull defence of the lawfull Regiment of Weomen'

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 903
'A dutifull defence of the lawfull Regiment of Weomen'
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: Written late in the 16th century

Early draft of 'The death of Adam' by Laurence Binyon

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 42
Early draft of 'The death of Adam' by Laurence Binyon
Extents: 27 Leaves
Dates: 1904

The East India trade in the 17th century in its political and economic aspects (Oxford, 1923), by Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 123
The East India trade in the 17th century in its political and economic aspects (Oxford, 1923), by Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan.
Extents: 107 Leaves
Dates: 1923

Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ trophæa, siue, Sanctor. martyrum ... passiones. Romæ in Collegio Anglico per N. Circinianum depictæ nuper autem per I B. de Cauallerijs æneis typis repræsentatæ

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Shelfmark: Antiq.c.I.5 (1)
Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ trophæa, siue, Sanctor. martyrum ... passiones. Romæ in Collegio Anglico per N. Circinianum depictæ nuper autem per I B. de Cauallerijs æneis typis repræsentatæ.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1584

Editor's working draft of the translation by J. H. Bell and J. R. von Sturmer of Claude Levi-Strauss, Les structures élémentaires de la parenté

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 448
Editor's working draft of the translation by J. H. Bell and J. R. von Sturmer of Claude Levi-Strauss, Les structures élémentaires de la parenté
Extents: 1075 Leaves
Dates: 1961-1968

Edward F. Benson and his Connection with Rye and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin by Mary Anderson Cooper

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8410, fols. 54-55
Edward F. Benson and his Connection with Rye and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin by Mary Anderson Cooper
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c. 2015

Eight detached leaves, in parts mutilated

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. b. 1
Eight detached leaves, in parts mutilated
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1554-1556

Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock

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Shelfmark: MS. Miscellaneous 3, fols. 1-11
Eight letters and two postcards from Edmund Blunden to Billy Maddock, 1931-1964.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1931-1964