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x - 15th century 33
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Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
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Religious literature, English 24
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x - 14th century 18
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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
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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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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

'A Reply to a pamphlet [by bp. Burnet] entituled The Bishop of Sarums Vindication...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 22
'A Reply to a pamphlet [by bp. Burnet] entituled The Bishop of Sarums Vindication...'
Extents: 85 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1696 by G. Hickes

Revised proof of D. L. Johnston, The Trianon case (Ilfracombe, 1945)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 307
Revised proof of D. L. Johnston, The Trianon case (Ilfracombe, 1945)
Extents: 176 pages
Dates: 1945-1948

Revised version of George Dunie 'The inquisition of 1650'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 49
Revised version of George Dunie 'The inquisition of 1650'
Extents: 94 pages
Dates: 1821

A rhyme about Prof. C.H. Dodd ?by Sir Farquhar Buzzard

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 163, fol. 2
A rhyme about Prof. C.H. Dodd by Sir Farquhar Buzzard
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c.1930

Richard Adams's annotated copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and his copy of the first British edition (1975)

 Collection
Richard Adams's annotated copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and his copy of the first British edition (1975).
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1974-1975

Robert Barry Donovan, 'The MS. Digby 133 Mary Magdalene: a critical edition'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1151
Robert Barry Donovan, 'The MS. Digby 133 Mary Magdalene: a critical edition'
Extents: 221 Leaves
Dates: July 1977

'Roberti Talboti Annotationes in earn partem itinerarii Anton[ini] quae ad Britanniam pertinet'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 188
'Roberti Talboti Annotationes in earn partem itinerarii Anton[ini] quae ad Britanniam pertinet'
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 2nd half of the 16th century by J. Stow

Robin Joyce, 'The Troublesome Woman: A Study of Barbara Pym’s novels and short stories'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8246
Robin Joyce, 'The Troublesome Woman: A Study of Barbara Pym’s novels and short stories'
Extents: 314 Leaves
Dates: Mar 2012

Roe Manuscripts

 Collection
Manuscripts collected by Sir Thomas Roe.
Extents: 3.30 Linear metres (30 boxes)
Dates: 10th-17th century

A roll containing short passages (verses or anecdotes?) in shorthand

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. f. 3 (R)
A roll containing short passages (verses or anecdotes?) in shorthand
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written perhaps in the second half of the 17th century

A Roman Choir Psalter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. liturg. a. 2
A Roman Choir Psalter
Extents: 120 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1500 in Italy, perhaps at Gubbio

A Roman Choir Psalter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. liturg. a. 3
A Roman Choir Psalter
Extents: 158 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1500 in Italy, perhaps at Gubbio

Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 653
Rose E. Hubbard, Ornamental waterfowl (Walsall, 1907)
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c. 1907-1917

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald's translation), written on parchment by William Morris

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. f. 3
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (Fitzgerald's translation), written on parchment by William Morris
Extents: 12 Leaves
Dates: c. 1872-1874

The Rules of the Holy Apostles and the Holy Seven Councils of the Church

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 995
The Rules of the Holy Apostles and the Holy Seven Councils of the Church
Extents: 180 Leaves
Dates: Written perhaps late in the 16th century

'Russian fables in rime, by Nikolas Vinogradov (beg. with The Owl and the Informers)'

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Shelfmark: MS. Russ. c. 2
'Russian fables in rime, by Nikolas Vinogradov (beg. with The Owl and the Informers)'
Extents: 105 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1895 (and 1896) by N. Vinogradoff

Saibante Manuscripts

 Collection
Greek manuscripts from the library of Giovanni Saibante (fl 1732).
Extents: 5.72 Linear metres (52 boxes)
Dates: 10th-17th cent.

'Sanctissimæ Trinitati ... et sanctissimo Anglorum Apostolo Augustino, patrono suo ... d.d. cc. q. ... Poetæ Collegii Anglicani Duaceni, Anno mdcclxii'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 5
'Sanctissimæ Trinitati ... et sanctissimo Anglorum Apostolo Augustino, patrono suo ... d.d. cc. q. ... Poetæ Collegii Anglicani Duaceni, Anno mdcclxii'
Extents: 40 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1767 in several hands at Douay

Satirical pieces, mainly verse

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 18
Satirical pieces, mainly verse
Extents: 203 Leaves
Dates: c. 1675-c. 1700

Scholia on Aristotle

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. inf. 1. 15
Scholia on Aristotle, written in the early 16th century.
Extents: 245 Leaves
Dates: written in the early 16th century