The Taylor Institution was established in 1845 following the bequest of Sir Robert Taylor (1714-1788), the sculptor and architect, who left the residue of his estate to enable the creation of a foundation for the teaching of modern European languages in Oxford.
The Taylor Institution Library caters for French, German (including some provision for Yiddish), Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (including the literature of modern Latin America), Slavonic studies, and general linguistics and comparative philological studies. The archive collections held by the Library tend to be the papers of academics or societies associated with the study of Modern Languages at Oxford.
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- A. E. Hudson's English-Italian dictionary of words and phrases
- Dikran Garabedian's verse translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Drawings by Sir Robert Taylor
- José Maria Ferreira de Castro (1898-1974) and Jose Saramago
- Journals of John Sidney Doyle concerning visits to Germany
- Letters addressed to, or collected by, the Peyton and Harding families of Birmingham
- Letters of Geoffrey J. Aspin to Vivienne Mylne
- Letters of George Alfred Kolkhorst to Charles Marius Kennedy
- Letters of Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
- Main Incidents in the married Life of Hermann Georg Fiedler and Ethel Mary Fiedler
- Miscellaneous English autographs
- Miscellaneous French autographs
- Miscellaneous German autographs
- Miscellaneous Italian autographs
- Miscellaneous Latin American autographs
- Miscellaneous Spanish autographs
- Paget Toynbee's concordances to Dante's Convivo, Vita nuova, and part of the Canzoniere
- Papers compiled by Norma Perry relating to Voltaire's visit to England
- Papers of Anne Pennington
- Papers of Edward Moore relating to Dante
- Papers of Edwin George Ross Waters
- Papers of Féli Gautier concerning Charles Baudelaire
- Papers of Friedrich Max Müller
- Papers of Gareth Alban Davies
- Papers of Gustave Rudler
- Papers of Henry Wellesley
- Papers of Hermann Georg Fiedler
- Papers of Jean J. Seznec
- Papers of John Knight Bostock
- Papers of John Mavrogordato
- Papers of Kathleen Chesney and Mary Ethel Seaton
- Papers of Margaret Masson Hasluck
- Papers of Mary Dominica Legge
- Papers of Nadezhda Gorodetskaia concerning Princess Zinaida Volkonskaia
- Papers of Ondra Lysohorsky and David Gill
- Papers of Richard Dawkins
- Papers of Robert Auty
- Papers of Ruth J. Dean concerning Paul Meyer
- Papers of T.B.W. Reid concerning negation in French
- Papers of T.D.N. Besterman
- Papers of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
- Papers of William Richard Morfill
- Papers relating to John Dickson Sinclair's translation of Dante
- Papers relating to Kostis Palamas
- Papers relating to the Oxford Dante Society
- Russian autographs, including three by Boris Pasternak
- Transcripts produced from the manuscripts of Charles Antoine Coypel's plays
