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Treasures of The Library

Manuscript collections
  • The Ashmole Manuscripts (including the Ashmole Bestiary), collected by Elias Ashmole
  • The Carte Manuscripts, collected by Thomas Carte (1686–1754)
  • The Douce Manuscripts, donated to the library by Sir Francis Douce in 1834
  • The Laud Manuscripts, donated to the library by Archbishop William Laud between 1635 and 1640
  • The letters of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Individual manuscripts
  • The Codex Bodley
  • The Codex Ebnerianus
  • The Codex Laudianus
  • The Codex Laud
  • The Codex Mendoza
  • The Codex Tischendorfianus III
  • The Codex Tischendorfianus IV
  • The Huntington MS 17, the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four Gospels in Bohairic (Coptic).
  • The Magna Carta (four copies)
  • The Song of Roland.
  • The Vernon Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1), the longest and most important surviving manuscript written in Middle English.
Individual printed books
  • A Gutenberg Bible, ca. 1455, one of only 42 surviving complete copies.
  • Shakespeare's First folio, 1623

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