Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
Lives of members of the Florentine family of Strozzi by Lorenzo Strozzi
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. c. 22
Lives of members of the Florentine family of Strozzi by Lorenzo Strozzi.
Extents: 102 Leaves
Dates:
18th century
Lives of the Popes from St. Peter to Innocent XI by Pietro de Sebastiani
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. d. 11
Lives of the Popes from St. Peter to Innocent XI by Pietro de Sebastiani.
Extents: 130 Leaves
Dates:
late 17th-early 18th century
Memoirs of [eighteen] celebrated professors of the belles Letters in the Academy of Inscriptions etc. at Paris
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 372
Memoirs of [eighteen] celebrated professors of the belles Letters in the Academy of Inscriptions etc. at Paris, written in A.D. 1757 by R. Gough.
Extents: 148 pages
Dates:
written in A.D. 1757 by R. Gough
Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon. e. 697
Memorial of the life and character of John Shute Duncan by his brother Philip Bury Duncan
Extents: 97 Leaves
Dates:
1844-1845
Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Film 1156
Microfilm of Eton College MS. 167: Life of Sir Thomas More
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1500 - 1599
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. b. 4
Miscellaneous 'Scraps' in English
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates:
Written in the 16th-19th century
Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers
Collection
Notebooks of Alexander Chalmers, containing literary references for the lives of well-known persons.
Extents: 1.20 Linear metres (24 boxes)
Dates:
1810
Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7556, fols. 116-124
Notes made by Ann Thwaite while compiling My Oxford
Extents: 9 Leaves
Dates:
1976-1977
Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Top. Oxon c. 33
Notes of a perambulation of Oxford by an artist, written in A.D. 1785.
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates:
written in A.D. 1785
'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...'
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 104
'Of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex & George Villiers Duke of Buckingham. Some Observations by way of paralell ...', written in about the middle of the 17th century.
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates:
written in about the middle of the 17th century
Papers of Boyd Alexander relating to William Beckford
Collection
Papers of Boyd Alexander (1913-1980), publisher of works on William Beckford (1760-1844), author, MP and art collector.
Extents: 4.6 Linear metres (46 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
19th-20th century
Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7042
Papers of Henry William Carless Davis, mainly relating to his work as editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Extents: 177 Leaves
Dates:
1904-1960
Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Collection
Papers of Michael Francis Strachan, relating to his work, Esmond de Beer: scholar and benefactor: a personal memoir (Norwich, 1995)
Extents: 157.0 Leaves
Dates:
1960-1996
Papers relating to Cecil John Rhodes (2)
Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the life and career of Rhodes in Southern Africa, including a biography (Miniature series) by Ada S. Frost entitled The right hon. Cecil J. Rhodes (London: 1902).
Extents: 38 ff.
Dates:
1896-1902
A postcard of Elizabeth Jennings and an Oxford University Poetry Society performance ticket given by Ann Thwaite
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8238, fols. 104-6
A note by Ann Thwaite describing her gift of a 1958 postcard from Elizabeth Jennings a ticket for a 1953 Oxford University Poetry Society performance of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral.
Extents: 3 Leaves
Dates:
1953, 1958, 2016
Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 56
Proof sheets of sir Theodore Martin's Life of the Prince Consort
Extents: 388 Leaves
Dates:
Printed in 1874-1878
R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 145
R. C. Nichols, Memoir of the late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A.
Extents: 79 Leaves
Dates:
c. 1874
Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. g. 3
Rambling notes, chiefly legal and biographical
Extents: 31 Leaves
Dates:
Written about A.D. 1821
'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Don. c. 4
'Recueil des Chansons critiques, satyriques, libres, joyeuses et grivoises', by Roger Rabutin
Extents: 181 Leaves
Dates:
17th century
Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 291
Reminiscences of Theodore Hook (1788-1841), by R. H. Barham
Extents: 44 pages
Dates:
1843