For an overview of the holdings of the libraries of the Oxford colleges and other institutions, including their printed books, post-medieval manuscripts, and archives, see Paul Morgan, Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian: a guide (2nd. edn., Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1980).
College manuscripts are also listed in the Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford libraries by Andrew G. Watson, (2 vols., Oxford, 1984).
The illuminated manuscripts of these colleges are described briefly, and many are illustrated, in J. J. G. Alexander and Elzbieta Temple, Illuminated manuscripts in Oxford college libraries, the University Archives and the Taylor Institution (Oxford, 1985).
For the archives of Oxford colleges, see the website of the Oxford Archivists' Consortium.
In addition to those listed below, Christ Church has deposited its medieval deeds. The medieval deeds of Queen's College, formerly deposited in the Bodleian, were returned to the College in 2018.
The Lincoln College manuscripts are numbered in separate sequences by language, mostly Latin (Lat.) and Greek (Gr.).
A new catalogue is in preparation by Dr. Jeremy Catto and Dr. Patrick Nold.
Most manuscripts are on deposit at the Bodleian, but a few are retained by the college.
The following is a list of Oxford institutions with medieval manuscripts, other than those on deposit at the Bodleian, and details of their catalogues. Medieval manuscripts in college libraries by the mid-nineteenth century are generally included in Coxe's Colleges Catalogue; acquisitions since then are described by Ker.
College manuscripts are also listed in the Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford libraries by Andrew G. Watson, (2 vols., Oxford, 1984).
New catalogues of the manuscripts of Lincoln College (Latin and Greek), Magdalen College, New College, and University College are currently (December 2023) in progress. The respective college librarians or archivists should be contacted for further information.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of All Souls College, Oxford by Manuscripts sold at Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1992.
A descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts, to c. 1600, in Christ Church, Oxford by Ralph Hanna and David Rundle (Oxford, 2017)
A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford, by R. M. Thomson (Cambridge, 2011)
A descriptive catalogue of the Greek manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford, by N. G. Wilson (Cambridge, 2011)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford by A catalogue of the Greek manuscripts of Magdalen College, Oxford, by Mark L. Sosower (Cambridge, MA, 2016)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford by A descriptive catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of the Queen's College, Oxford, by Peter Kidd (Oxford, 2016)
A descriptive catalogue of Greek manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford, by Mark L. Sosower and Jane Eagan (Oxford, 2007)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford by Vol. I* contains descriptions of the MSS. of the following colleges:
• University
• Balliol
• Merton
• Exeter
• Oriel
• Queen's
• New
• Lincoln
* Reprinted as:
Vol. II contains descriptions of the MSS. of the following colleges:
• All Souls
• Magdalen
• Brasenose
• Corpus Christi
• Trinity
• St. John's
• Jesus
• Wadham
• Worcester
• Hertford
Note that in each volume each college is treated in a separately-paginated section.
Most of the manuscripts acquired by these colleges since the publication of Coxe's catalogue are described in:
pp. 584-735, where further bibliography will also be found.
Coxe does not include an index of incipits, but this is partially supplied by:
