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x - 15th century 33
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x - 13th century 14
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French literature 13
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x - 11th century 9
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Catholic Church 8
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English literature -- 21st century 8
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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

Felix D. Beck, 'The Scroll'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1067
Felix D. Beck, 'The Scroll'
Extents: 157 Leaves
Dates: 1973

A few autograph letters of Bodleian benefactors

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. c. 8
A few autograph letters of Bodleian benefactors
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1665-1788

A few letters, partly from John Gough Nichols' correspondence

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 5
A few letters, partly from John Gough Nichols' correspondence
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1777-1855

A few papers relating to the old Radcliffe library at Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon b. 43
A few papers relating to the old Radcliffe library at Oxford
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: Partly written about 1740-1823

A few pieces of English verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 10
A few pieces of English verse
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 18th and 19th century

A few specimens of the original manuscript slips

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lang. e. 5
A few specimens of the original manuscript slips
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written in about 1880 by W. W. Skeat

Fifteen letters from Robert Seymour Bridges, Monica Bridges and G.S. Gordon to R.W. Chapman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 163, fol. 6-27
Letters from Robert Seymour Bridges, Monica Bridges and G.S. Gordon to R.W. Chapman
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: [1917]-1928

Fifty letters and dispatches almost all from card. Carlo Carrafa

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 32
Fifty letters and dispatches almost all from card. Carlo Carrafa
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: Written early in the 17th century

Final draft of T. E. Lawrence, The mint, 1928, with amendments probably made in April 1935

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 607
Final draft of T. E. Lawrence, The mint, 1928, with amendments probably made in April 1935.
Extents: 235 Leaves
Dates: of 1928-1935

The first book of the Chrysopæia

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. e. 33
The first book of the Chrysopæia
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first quarter of the 16th century by J. A. Angurelli

The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Welsh f. 9 (R)
The first portion of a Welsh religious Interlude or moral play
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written perhaps about A.D. 1700

First sketch by dr. Edmund Calamy

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 90
First sketch by dr. Edmund Calamy
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: Written about 1713-1727 by dr. E. Calamy

Five letters from Kenneth Grahame to Alice Maude Nightingale

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8394, fols. 9-20
Five letters from Kenneth Grahame to Alice Maude Nightingale.
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: [1920]-1921, 2016

Forged ‘17th-century’ verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fol. 4
Forged ‘17th-century’ verse
Extents: 1 box
Dates: n.d.

Forty-four sheets bearing inscriptions

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Spanish c. 1
Forty-four sheets bearing inscriptions
Extents: 73 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1750-1773 in Spain

Four albums compiled by Brian Aldiss

 Collection
Four volumes of photograph album scrapbooks compiled by Brian Aldiss, containing original artwork for the covers of many of his books, with extensive authorial comments inserted throughout.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 shelfmarks)
Dates: n.d.

Four letters from Thornton Wilder to the Dolphin Bookshop, Oxford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 12294
Four letters from Thornton Wilder to the Dolphin Bookshop, Oxford.
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates: Apr 1951-Jul 1952

Four-line fragment from an autograph letter by William Godwin

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Shelfmark: MS. Shelley adds. c. 13, fol. 12
Four-line fragment from an autograph letter by William Godwin, n.d.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: n.d.

Four mutilated letters in English

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 33
Four mutilated letters in English
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1509-1510

Four sermons by dr. Thomas Lushington

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 82
Four sermons by dr. Thomas Lushington
Extents: 46 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1625