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18th century 282
English literature 250
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16th century 154
English literature -- 20th century 130
Humanities 123
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21st century 69
Greek literature 69
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Antiquarians 40
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x - 15th century 33
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Theology 32
Literature -- 20th century 31
Authors -- 20th century 28
Books 27
Correspondence 26
Manuscripts 26
Playwriting -- Drama 25
Religious literature, English 24
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Royal family 21
Novelists -- 20th century 19
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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
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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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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
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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

Author's typescript of 'Shakespeare and costume' by Cumberland Clark

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 150
Author's typescript of 'Shakespeare and costume' by Cumberland Clark
Extents: 283 Leaves
Dates: 1937

Autobiography of Mrs. L. Hewitt

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. d. 440
Autobiography of Mrs. L. Hewitt, daughter of Heinrich Krebs, Librarian of the Taylor Institution, 1931, entitled 'The chronicle of Wisa Dingeldey from 4 to 17 by Herself'.
Extents: 370 Leaves
Dates: 1900-1901

The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley

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Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 186
The Autobiography of sir Thomas Bodley
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates: Written in or soon after A.D. 1613

Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 128
Autograph draft of The house of the octopus by Charles Williams, published, London, 1945.
Extents: 195 Leaves
Dates: 1945

Autograph drafts, and fair copies by G. Dixon, of verse by Thomas Donaldson

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 40
Autograph drafts, and fair copies by G. Dixon
Extents: 143 Leaves
Dates: c. 1809

Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris'

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8417, fol. 78
Autograph letter from John le Carré to 'Doris', 27 Mar 2020.
Extents: 1 Leaves
Dates: 27 Mar 2020

Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. e. 58
Autograph manuscript of Thomas Woolner, 'My beautiful lady', 1861, used by the printer.
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates: 1863

Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6859, fol. 27
Autograph postcard from W.H. Auden to Giles Auden
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: 1949

Ballard Collection

 Collection
George Ballard's manuscript collection.
Extents: 8.36 Linear metres (76 boxes)
Dates: 16th-18th century

Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3220
Barbara Anne Pertzel, 'Frederic Madden and Havelok the Dane An original moment in the history of editing Middle English verse romance', Ph.D thesis, University of Melborne
Extents: 331 Leaves
Dates: 1997

'Basque miscellanea'

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Shelfmark: MS. Basque d. 3
'Basque miscellanea'
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1901-1902

'Basque Miscellanea'

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Shelfmark: MS. Basque e. 5
'Basque Miscellanea'
Extents: 58 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1893 (?)-1895

Batavi in Britannia hospitis Otia Oxoniensia

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Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 404
'Batavi in Britannia hospitis Otia Oxoniensia,' written in 1690 by H. Beverland
Extents: 96 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1690 by H. Beverland

Batel lists, quit rents, Bagley accounts and allowances of st. John's college, Oxford

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon b. 2
Batel lists, quit rents, Bagley accounts and allowances of st. John's college, Oxford
Extents: 42 Leaves
Dates: Written chiefly in A.D. 1733

'Beati Gregorij Papæ X Placentini Vitae, Virtutum, ac Miraculorum relatio facta...'

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. th. d. 6
'Beati Gregorij Papæ X Placentini Vitae, Virtutum, ac Miraculorum relatio facta...'
Extents: 146 pages
Dates: Written in about 1630-1640 (?)

Beddoes and Edgeworth family papers

 Collection
Papers relating to the Beddoes and Edgeworth family.
Extents: 3.21 Linear metres (9 boxes)
Dates: late 17th century-1942

'Berkshire & Oxfordshire Antiquities...'

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Shelfmark: MS. Top. Berks e. 8
'Berkshire & Oxfordshire Antiquities...'
Extents: 124 Leaves
Dates: Written in A.D. 1851-1869

Berkshire collections of Henry Hinton, a companion volume to his collections for Oxfordshire

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Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 146
Berkshire collections of Henry Hinton, a companion volume to his collections for Oxfordshire
Extents: 757 pages
Dates: 19th century

Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8239
An unbound proof copy of Bevis Hillier, The Virgin’s Baby
Extents: 412 Leaves
Dates: [c.2013]

Biblical notes, of varied character and date

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. th. c. 19
Biblical notes, of varied character and date
Extents: 184 Leaves
Dates: Written in the 19th century by various hands