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x - 13th century 14
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Authors, classical 13
French literature 13
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German literature 12
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Philosophy 11
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Bible 9
Bodleian Library 9
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Political satire 9
Spanish literature 9
Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
x - 11th century 9
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Basque literature 8
Catholic Church 8
Drama 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

A 17th-cent. Latin play

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 102
A 17th-cent. Latin play
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. facs. b. 81
27 negative photostats of John Keats', autograph draft of Otho the Great. Acts IV, scene 2 – V, scene 5.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1819

41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 153
41 poems by W.H. Auden, copied for his mother, probably about 1925, in a notebook.
Extents: 77 Leaves
Dates: c. 1925

The Abinger Papers

 Collection
Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937

'Abrahami Heidani...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. c. 15
'Abrahami Heidani...'
Extents: 52 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1733 in Holland

'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Fairfax 39
'An Abridgement of the Life and Death of Julius Cæsar. London. Written by Io. Raymond Anno: MDCXLIX'
Extents: 96 pages
Dates: Written in 1649 by J. Raymond

An abridgement of Theodorus Janssonius ab Almelhoveen's List of books

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 72
An abridgement of Theodorus Janssonius ab Almelhoveen's List of books
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1700

'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 172
'Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England.'
Extents: 137 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1770-1780

'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 1 (R)
'An Abstract of the Names of the People called Quakers lately convicted as Popish Recusants...'
Extents: 1 roll
Dates: Written about A.D. 1660-1670

Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 342
Account by Ralph Straus of a conversation between himself and H. G. Wells about the attacks on The New Machiavelli
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: c. 1910

Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 652, fols. 106-116
Account by Sir Robert de Zouche Hall of Mary Kingsley and Sir Matthew Nathan
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates: 1963

An account of sir Thomas Bodley's negotiations in the Netherlands

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 46
An account of sir Thomas Bodley's negotiations in the Netherlands
Extents: 50 Leaves
Dates: Written in about 1597 (?)

An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. c. 71
An account of the Church of St. James, Cowley, Oxon, written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst.
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates: written in A.D. 1876 by H. Hurst

Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 261
Account of the proceedings of the Tusculan Society, a London literary and debating society
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: Jan 1739-Feb 1742

'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 1
'An Account of the Visit of ... the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia...'
Extents: 63 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1814

Accounts and diary of sir John North etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. C. 193
Accounts and diary of sir John North etc.
Extents: 93 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1575-1589 in three hands

Accounts, notes, plans, etc.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Surrey e. 3
Accounts, notes, plans, etc.
Extents: 139 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1827-1833, chiefly by J. B. Nichols

Accounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 192
ccounts of religious ceremonies of heathen nations
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written about A.D. 1740-1750

Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wilts d. 1
Accounts of rent and taxes relating to a malthouse in Kingsbury st.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1734-1776, chiefly by J. Pocock

Additional correspondence of Maria Edgeworth and family

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 6408
Letters of the engineer, inventor and educationist Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his daughter, the writer Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), 1763-1849.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1763-1849

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