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x - 11th century 9
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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

Typescript verse by R. Lowther Bridger

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 23
Typescript verse by R. Lowther Bridger
Extents: 88 Leaves
Dates: 1905-1918

Typescript, with autograph corrections of 'Apostate' by Forrest Reid

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 10
Typescript, with autograph corrections of 'Apostate' by Forrest Reid
Extents: 224 Leaves
Dates: 1926

Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, 'Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6043, fols. 49-65
Typescript, with holograph amendments, of a lecture by Seamus Heaney, ‘Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf’.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: 23 Jan 1998

Typescript, with numerous manuscript insertions and corrections, of Samuel Butler, 'Luck or cunning'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 96
Typescript, with numerous manuscript insertions and corrections, of Samuel Butler, 'Luck or cunning'
Extents: 247 Leaves
Dates: 1886-1887

Typescript work by C. A. Woodhouse, 'Explanations of words and expressions used in "Customs of the world", with notes on head-hunting customs as found among various peoples'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 894
Typescript work by C. A. Woodhouse, 'Explanations of words and expressions used in "Customs of the world", with notes on head-hunting customs as found among various peoples'
Extents: 112 Leaves
Dates: 1914

Typescripts of two novels by Alice Harwood

 Collection
Typescripts of two novels by Alice Harwood
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: mid 20th century

An unidentified Italian translation of the Gospels

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. e. 122
An unidentified Italian translation of the Gospels
Extents: 265 Leaves
Dates: c. 1767

Unpublished child's historical novel, The Lost Kingdom, by C.M. Carter

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 17192
Unpublished child's historical novel entitled The Lost Kingdom by C.M. Carter, c.1922.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: c.1922

'Unpublished details relative to the death of the Emperor Alexander'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 263
'Unpublished details relative to the death of the Emperor Alexander', n.d., watermark 1836.
Extents: 16 pages
Dates: n.d. Watermark, 1836

Unpublished story by J. T. J. Hewlett (1800-47)

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 117
Unpublished story by J. T. J. Hewlett (1800-47)
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: c. 1800-1847

Untitled holograph manuscript by C.S. Lewis

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Shelfmark: Dep. d. 826
Untitled holograph manuscript by Clive Staples Lewis, writer and scholar, beginning 'I have been asked to write on Christian re-union'
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates: n.d. [c.1942-1944]

A valuable series of letters and papers nearly all addressed to successive Bodley's Librarians

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 64
A valuable series of letters and papers nearly all addressed to successive Bodley's Librarians
Extents: 366 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1638-1859

Various accounts, deeds, etc., relating to Bury St. Edmund's

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Suffolk b. 1
Various accounts, deeds, etc., relating to Bury St. Edmund's
Extents: 147 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th-18th century

Various documents

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 37
Various documents
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 19th-20th century

Various manuscript papers relating to Gloucestershire

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Gloucestershire c. 6
Various manuscript papers relating to Gloucestershire
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates: Written in the first half of the 18th century

Verse by A. A. Piggot

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 154
Verse by A. A. Piggot (1891-1915), nearly all published in Poems (London, 1920).
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Verse by 'Miles Christian Armiger' entitled 'Old music'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 42
Verse by 'Miles Christian Armiger' entitled 'Old music'
Extents: 81 Leaves
Dates: Early 20th century

Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-1612, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972)

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 197
Verse letter by John Donne, 1611-12, published, with a facsimile, by Dame Helen Gardner, John Donne's holograph of 'A letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' (London, 1972).
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1611-1612, 1972

Verses written by Jane Austen

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 92, fols. 45-46
Verses written by Jane Austen.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates: 15 Jul 1817

'Vita del Sommo Pontefice Sisto V, composta da vn' Autore Anonimo...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 131
'Vita del Sommo Pontefice Sisto V, composta da vn' Autore Anonimo...'
Extents: 184 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 17th century