(fol. 1) Watercolour of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, from the north entrance, by an unnamed artist, n.d. (fol. 2) Watercolour of a design for New Quad, Magdalen College, Oxford by an unnamed artist, 1804 (fol. 3) Watercolour of the east view of Brasenose College, Oxford by an unnamed artist, n.d. (fol. 4) Pencil drawing of the west front of Christ…

373 drawings and paintings, mainly of buildings in Oxford, by artists including (passim) William Alfred Delamotte, William Turner, James Allen Shuffrey, George Pyne, John Whessell, R Phene Spiers, W. Calcott, William Varley, H. O'Neill, and John Chessell Buckler. There is a table of contents at fol. ii [ii+375 leaves]: (image 1) Pencil drawing of a view from the South East of the Abingdon Road, Oxford,…

Notes on monumental brasses in Oxfordshire, arranged alphabetically by placename [i+453 leaves].

Notes and sketches by Thomas Rickman for the sections covering Oxfordshire and Berkshire in the third edition of An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation (London, 1825) [iii + 44 leaves].

First of three volumes of topographical and historical collections on Oxfordshire made by Charles Richardson (d. 1827). Arranged by the county subdivision of the 'hundred', excluding Wootton Hundred [iii + 380 leaves].

Folk-lore (General) I. A volume containing collections on Oxfordshire folklore, arranged alphabetically. Includes a list of contents at fol. 1, newspaper and journal clippings, and letters from individuals including (fol. 20) Diamond Jenness, (fol. 115) Thomas Davenport, (fol. 167) William Reginald Halliday, (fols. 299, 327) J.E. Field, (fols. 301, 315, 323, 325) Charlotte Sophia Burne, (fol. 317) G. Busby, (fol. 319) C.E. Prior [i+336 leaves]. Covers…

Papers read to the Oxford Architectural Society, 1840-1844, and notes for contributions to the society's publication A Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (Oxford, 1842) [148 leaves]. Includes: (Fol. 2) Extracts translated from an essay on the study of architecture by C. Rathgeber, 1840. (Fol. 8) 'Cumnor church' by William…

(fols. 1-24) Cuttings from the Oxford Times on bells and bell-ringing in Oxfordshire, and (fols. 25-63) rubbings of inscriptions upon Oxfordshire church bells, arranged alphabetically by place [i+63 leaves].

Tracings and drawings of encaustic tiles in Oxfordshire and elsewhere [i +170 leaves]: (fol. 1) Newspaper cutting about the Ladies' Archaeological and Brass-Rubbing Society, 19 May 1906 (fol. 2) Tile from the site of the chapel of St. John Baptist, Sheep Street, Bicester, also used at Oxford Cathedral [Christ Church Cathedral], Sandford and Godstow (fol. 3) Tile from…

'A translation of T[homas] Cole's collection of 16th and 17th century escheats for Oxfordshire, now forming numbers 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 410 and 411 of the Harleian manuscripts deposited in the British Museum'. Includes an alphabetical index of personal names at fol. 2 and of place names at fol. 30v [xv + 47 leaves].

Alphabetically arranged loose manuscript notes, ephemera, cuttings and prints on Oxfordshire towns, villages and houses from Deddington to Grimsbury.

Manuscript notebook (with some tipped in printed and typescript material) listing sources for Oxfordshire topography [277 leaves, fol. 158 appears twice]. Includes: (fols. i-66) A list of monumental inscriptions in Oxfordshire and Berkshire recorded in certain manuscripts in the Wood and Rawlinson collections, and the Harleian and Additional manuscripts in the British Museum (British Library). …