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Manuscripts: Archives and Modern: Collections

A guide to the finding aids available for early modern and modern manuscripts and printed ephemera in the Bodleian Library.

Guides to our collections...

Early modern
How to find our early modern papers
Modern political
How to find our modern political papers
Literary
How to find our literary papers
Commonwealth & African
How to find out Commonwealth & African collections
Scientific papers
How to find our scientific papers
University archives
How to find the archives of Oxford University
Named collections
Guides to our larger, important collections from named donors
Charters, rolls & seals
How to find our charters, rolls and seals
Church & probate
How to find our church and probate records
Oxford
How to find our Oxford city-related collections
Library records
How to find the Bodleian Library's own institutional records
Printed collections
How to find rare books and our printed ephemera collections
Theses
How to find Oxford University theses

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