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x - 13th century 14
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Women authors, English -- 20th century 9
x - 11th century 9
Antiquities 8
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Catholic Church 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

Scholia on Sophocles

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. 4. 35
Scholia on Sophocles, written in 1820 by P. Elmsley.
Extents: 394 Leaves
Dates: written in 1820 by P. Elmsley

A scrap book on coloured paper, containing among printed papers ranging from 1837 to 1877

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 10
A scrap book on coloured paper, containing among printed papers ranging from 1837 to 1877
Extents: 200 Leaves
Dates: Partly written about A.D. 1830-1840

Scrapbook belonging to the Ruxton family of Black Castle, Co. Meath or the Edgeworth family of Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1368
Scrapbook belonging to the Ruxton family of Black Castle, Co. Meath or the Edgeworth family of Edgeworthstown
Extents: 205 Leaves
Dates: 1794-1846

'Scraps'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 27
'Scraps'
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 16th-18th century

'Scraps, etc.'

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Shelfmark: MS. Span. c. 11
'Scraps, etc.'
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

'Scraps', partly from bindings,

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. e. 1
'Scraps', partly from bindings,
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 15th, 17th, and 19th century

Scribal copy of a translation by Sir John Harington from Latin into English verse of 'The school of Salerne'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 32
Scribal copy of a translation by Sir John Harington from Latin into English verse of 'The school of Salerne'.
Extents: 28 Leaves
Dates: Early 17th century

Scribe's copy of Henry Swinburne's 'Of spousalls'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 522
Scribe's copy of Henry Swinburne's 'Of spousalls'
Extents: 211 Leaves
Dates: 26 Sept 1684

Script for a musical play on the life of St Frideswide

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Shelfmark: MS. 24246
Script for a musical play on the life of St Frideswide, c.1994.
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: c.1994

Scroll containing translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in various languages

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Shelfmark: MS. 21647
Scroll containing translations of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in various languages, [2010s].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [2010s]

The second half of the Etymologicum Magnum

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Shelfmark: MS. Auct. T. infra 2. 4
The second half of the Etymologicum Magnum
Extents: 432 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 16th century

'Second MS. containing later Historical and earlier Poems, besides Verses for Christmas and Easter, Scraps, etc. all composed by Emily Cozens. Copied by William Cozens’

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3606
'Second MS. containing later Historical and earlier Poems, besides Verses for Christmas and Easter, Scraps, etc. all composed by Emily Cozens Copied by William Cozens
Extents: 150.0 pages
Dates: 1880

The second or general part of Andrew Symson's Large Description of Galloway (Edinb. 1823, pp. 70-108, 3-4)

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Wigtonshire e. 1
The second or general part of Andrew Symson's Large Description of Galloway (Edinb. 1823, pp. 70-108, 3-4)
Extents: 19 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1692 by A. Symson

The second volume of Sir Henry Spelman's Concilia

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Shelfmark: MS. e Mus. 49
The second volume of sir Henry Spelman's Concilia
Extents: 965 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1639-1664 by Sir Henry Spelman, Sir William Dugdale, and others

'Secretorium nature seu 5te essencie'

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 879
'Secretorium nature seu 5te essencie'
Extents: 34 Leaves
Dates: Written early in the 16th century

A selection of Hebrew prayers and songs

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 984
A selection of Hebrew prayers and songs
Extents: 46 Leaves
Dates: Written in the second half of the 17th century in England

Selections from letters written to dr. W. A. Greenhill

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Shelfmark: MS. Autogr. d. 6
Selections from letters written to dr. W. A. Greenhill
Extents: 108 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1837-1893

'Selections from the Gent. Mag. on Antiquarian Subjects',

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 20
'Selections from the Gent. Mag. on Antiquarian Subjects',
Extents: 188 pages
Dates: Written about A.D. 1760

Selective concordance by A. B. Poynton to the 'opuscula' of Dionysius Halicarnassensis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Gr. class. d. 139
Selective concordance by A. B. Poynton to the 'opuscula' (excluding the 'ars rhetorica') of Dionysius Halicarnassensis.
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: 1920s

Series of 22 letters from Charles Lamb to William Godwin

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 23682
22 letters from Charles Lamb (1775-1834) to William Godwin (1756-1836), 4 Dec 1800-[26 Jul 1827].
Extents: 0.08 Linear metres
Dates: 4 Dec 1800-[26 Jul 1827]