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17th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2016 Collections and/or Records:

Typed transcripts of Witney parish and Quaker registers, 16th-19th century, with indexes

 Collection
Typed transcripts of Witney parish and Quaker registers, 16th-19th century, with indexes.
Extents: 0.20 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 20th century

Typescript biography of John Rawlet (1642-1686) by Margaret Manuell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 804
Typescript biography of John Rawlet (1642-1686) by Margaret Manuell
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates: 1982

Typescript calendar of a register of briefs of the parish of North Tawton, 1666-1685

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Devon d. 6
Typescript calendar of a register of briefs of the parish of North Tawton, 1666-1685, compiled by H. F. F. Williams from the manuscript owned by Sir Robert Arundell, 1953.
Extents: 18 Leaves
Dates: 1953

Typescript calendar of the letter-book of Archbishop Sheldon

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 229
Typescript calendar of the letter-book of Archbishop Sheldon, 1664-1670.
Extents: 32 Leaves
Dates: 1664-1670

Typescript copy by F. J. Western of the parish registers of Appleton, 1569-1839

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Berks. d. 31
Typescript copy, by F. J. Western, 1943, of the parish registers of Appleton, 1569-1839.
Extents: 194 Leaves
Dates: 1943

Typescript copy of transcript by Miss E. G. Parker of the manuscript notes made by Inigo Jones in his copy of Andrea Palladio, I quattro libri dell' architettura (Venice, 1601)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 198
Typescript copy of transcript by Miss E. G. Parker
Extents: 341 Leaves
Dates: c. 1601

Unfinished book of emblazoned arms by Thomas Gore

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. f. 81
Unfinished book of emblazoned arms by Thomas Gore
Extents: 358 pages
Dates: 17th century

Unsigned newsletter from London, partly in code, addressed to 'Geoffrey Huson' in Paris

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 589, fols. 31-33
Unsigned newsletter from London, partly in code, addressed to 'Geoffrey Huson' in Paris
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates: 5 Nov 1649

Unused register book of Oxford University, ruled, bound in gilt morocco and stamped with the University arms by Ralph Beckford

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 245
Unused register book of Oxford University, ruled, bound in gilt morocco and stamped with the University arms by Ralph Beckford
Extents: 240 pages
Dates: c. 1654

Ussher Manuscripts

 Collection
Collections by Archbishop Ussher, 17th century.
Extents: 0.88 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 17th century

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

 Single Item
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

A valuation (valor) of the diocese of Norwich

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. 330
A valuation (valor) of the diocese of Norwich, no doubt made in 1603 for the new bishop, John Jegon.
Extents: 148 Leaves
Dates: Written early in the 17th century in England

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

 Single Item
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 pieces transcribed c. 1599-1601 by John Mansell

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. d. 152
Various pieces transcribed c. 1599-1601 by John Mansell
Extents: 56 Leaves
Dates: c. 1599-1601

Vaughan Thomas Papers

 Collection
Papers of Vaughan Thomas, including papers relating to Dr. Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763-1855), the University of Oxford, and Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
Extents: 12 shelfmarks
Dates: 17th-19th cent.

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)

 Single Item
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 by John Watt, dedicated 'Doctori Andrew huius collegii Decano'

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Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. e. 128
Verses by John Watt, dedicated 'Doctori Andrew huius collegii Decano', c.1600.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates: c.1600

View of the manors of 'Greate Lynton and Chilford with Mannours of Lytle Lynton and Mychylotts', Cambridgeshire, by John Paxton and Ferdinando Parrys

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Shelfmark: Dep. b. 45
View of the manors of 'Greate Lynton and Chilford with Mannours of Lytle Lynton and Mychylotts', Cambridgeshire, by John Paxton and Ferdinando Parrys.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1575, 1753-1754

Viner Papers

 Collection
Archive of Charles Viner (1678-1756)
Extents: 5.83 Linear metres (53 boxes)
Dates: 17th-18th century

Viol consort music by William Lawes, Christopher Simpson and others

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 568-569 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 22-23)
Two instrumental parts from a set of five, containing suites of airs and fantazias, 2nd half of 17th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 2nd half of 17th cent.