91 drawings and watercolours of Oxfordshire places by various artists including Francis Grose, R. Davidson, W. Fisher, J.C. Buckler, J. England, J. Whessell, [John Malchair?], and George Pyne (with an additional photograph of Pyne at fol. 2a). The images are indexed at fol. ii [ii+95 leaves].

Notes and transcripts by Percy Manning of leases and other 14th- to 18th-century documents relating to Oxfordshire places including (fol. 10) Eynsham, (fol. 30) Nether Worton, and (fol. 44) North Leigh. At fol. 57 is a copy of a court-roll of Tadmarton (1614), now MSS. Rolls Oxon. 505-506 (formerly MS. Phillipps 29185) [i+69 leaves].

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].

Second of three volumes of topographical and historical collections on Oxfordshire made by Charles Richardson (d. 1827). Relates to Wootton Hundred, with some notes on fol. 271 on the City of Oxford [ix + 299 leaves].

Collections on morris dancing and Whitsuntide celebrations in Oxfordshire. Includes (passim) music manuscripts and dance patterns, and letters from people including (fols. 70-76, 79, 80) T.J. Carter, and (fol. 86) P. Powell, plus (fol. 148) a photograph of morris dancing in Bampton [ii + 269 leaves].

Sports and pastimes pursued in Oxford and neighbourhood down to about 1850, arranged alphabetically, with letters from individuals including (fol. 68) Alfred Hutton, (fols. 70, 265) Henry W. Taunt, (fol. 76) J.W.W. Murray, (fols. 252, 254) W.E. Sherwood, (fols. 340, 480) Herbert Hurst [i+489 leaves]: Angling Backsword or cudgel play [singlestick] Ballooning ...

Sports and pastimes pursued in Oxford and neighbourhood down to about 1850, arranged alphabetically, with letters from individuals including (fol. 170) William Holden Hutton, (fol. 325, 328) Sidney Lee, (fol. 401) F. Harefield, (fols. 405, 461) H. Salter, (fol. 435) Bernard Henderson [i+494 leaves]: Coursing Cricket Cycling Dancing ...

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].

Notes, ephemera, cuttings relating to Eynsham.

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). ...

Twenty-eight deeds, principally relating to property in (fol. 9) Kidlington, (fol. 29) Minster Lovell, (fols. 48, 65) North Leigh, (fol. 50) Garsington, and (fol. 52) Warborough, with an index and summary at fol. 2 by Percy Manning. At fol. 63 is a copy of a confirmation of arms, 1549, by Sir Gilbert Dethicke, Garter, to George Perrott [77 leaves].

Typescript indexes of Oxfordshire parish registers.