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Literature 861
20th century 572
19th century 390
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
Latin literature 45
Literature -- Translations 45
Classical literature 43
English literature -- 19th century 43
English poetry 42
Antiquarians 40
Poems 38
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

Holograph draft of 'The old ladies' by Hugh Walpole

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 7
Holograph draft of 'The old ladies' by Hugh Walpole
Extents: 526 Leaves
Dates: Nov. 1923-Jan. 1924

Holograph fair copy of devotions of Sir Henry Herbert

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. f. 26
Holograph fair copy of devotions of Sir Henry Herbert
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates: 1620-1621

Holograph fair copy of Maria Edgeworth's unpublished play 'Whim for whim'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 648
Holograph fair copy of Maria Edgeworth's unpublished play 'Whim for whim'
Extents: 234 Leaves
Dates: 1795

Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 80
Holograph fair copy of 'The library' by George Crabbe
Extents: 65 Leaves
Dates: 1781

Holograph fair copy of 'Youth's funeral' by Rupert Brooke

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 1
Holograph fair copy of 'Youth's funeral' by Rupert Brooke
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: c. 1918

Holograph manuscript by Elizabeth Cary, 'The Mirror of the Worlde translated out of French into Englishe'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Dep. d. 817
Holograph manuscript by Elizabeth Cary, 'The Mirror of the Worlde translated out of French into Englishe'
Extents: 88 Leaves
Dates: n.d. (early 17th cent.)

Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 205
Holograph manuscript of William Congreve, ‘ffalse though you have been to me & Love’
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: c.1710-1729

Holograph poem by Hugo Manning, 'The Thorn and the Lotus'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 258
Holograph poem by Hugo Manning, 'The Thorn and the Lotus', 1976.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1976

'Homeri Odyssea ex recognitione Immanuelis Bekkeri'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Auct. S. 7. 32
'Homeri Odyssea ex recognitione Immanuelis Bekkeri'
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1843, 1855

The Howard Gray Swann collection of Warton Family Papers

 Collection
Papers of the Warton family, 1688-1864, including Thomas Warton (1688-1745), Joseph Warton (1722-1800), Thomas Warton (1728-1790).
Extents: 1.43 Linear metres (13 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1688-1864

Ian Fleming, manuscript of 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang', the first two adventures [lacking 'Adventure 3']

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 2718
Ian Fleming, manuscript of 'Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang', the first two adventures [lacking 'Adventure 3']
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: 1964

Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. c. 131
Ian Hamilton, J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life
Extents: 358 Leaves
Dates: [1980s], n.d.

'Ignorance in Spain by D. Pio Gullon, Madrid, 1868'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 45
'Ignorance in Spain by D. Pio Gullon, Madrid, 1868'
Extents: 68 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1868

Illuminated copy of John Huntley Skrine's 'Margaret of Anjou'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. e. 53
Illuminated copy of John Huntley Skrine's 'Margaret of Anjou'.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1870

Illustrated notebooks of William Gilpin, 'Remarks on Forests'

 Collection
Four illustrated notebooks of William Gilpin, 'Remarks on Forests', 1781
Extents: 0.42 Linear metres (6 physical Shelfmarks)
Dates: 1781

In Lucium Annæum Florum celeberrimi Domini Petri Burmanni Dictata

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. class. d. 9
'In Lucium Annæum Florum celeberrimi Domini Petri Burmanni Dictata', notes on the Epitome, presumably by Petrus Burmannus the elder, written in the 18th century.
Extents: 204 Leaves
Dates: written in the 18th century

'In quodam libro intitulato Nomina Villarum in Scaccario ex parte Rememoratoris Thesaurarii remanente (inter alia) continetur vt sequitur ...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts b. 1
'In quodam libro intitulato Nomina Villarum in Scaccario ex parte Rememoratoris Thesaurarii remanente (inter alia) continetur vt sequitur ...'
Extents: 38 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1640

'In the Queens Bench. Appendix C. Porter & Nickson v. the Duchy of Lancaster...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Lancs c. 1
'In the Queens Bench. Appendix C. Porter & Nickson v. the Duchy of Lancaster...'
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1865

Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 12
Incomplete copy of 'The silver king' by H. A. Jones and Henry Herman
Extents: 264 Leaves
Dates: 1907

Index by T. N. Morton

 Single Item
Shelfmark: R. 13. 14a
Index by T. N. Morton
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: 1884