NCA 2814, Certificate recording the gift by Alfred Ernest Allnatt to New College of El Greco's painting of St James, 1961

NCA 1682, Michael Burghers's plan with elevation flap covering proposed east range (never built), c. 1680

NCA 2709, The Masters and Usher of New College School, in the 1730s

NCA 3578, Plan of part of New College garden running southwards from the bowling green to the High Street and East Gate, early 17thC

NCA 4507, Richard Sargeant's map of disputed right of way in the College's manor of Great Horwood, hamlet of Singleborough, 1612
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NCA 4507, Richard Sargeant's map of Great Horwood [detail], 1612

NCA 5361, Richard II Charter confirming the College site in Oxford, 13 July 1389

Obverse of the Founder's seal (as Bishop of Winchester) on New College Statutes
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NCA 5617, Ship on the River Thames [detail] from Richard Barnard's map of Havering Marsh, 1600

NCA 5641, Map of the water course defining the boundary between Alton Barnes and Alton Priors, 1590

NCA 5671/1, Map of Bernwood Forest with arms of New College and Lord Williams of Thame, 1590

NCA 7441, Ornate heading to the account roll written by Thomas Copcot and audited by Henry Doget, 1484-5 (year 2-3 Ric. III)

NCA 7675, New College garden account payment to (inter alia) Stubbs the gardener for work on The Mound, 1653-54

NCA 9431, Founder's Statutes for New College; illuminated folio 1, describing the foundation of his college

NCA 9432, Register of charters by which Richard Sherbourne appointed Chichester lay clerks, c. 1530

NCA 9790, New College Register of Evidences vol. 4, recording older property rights in Takeley, Essex, but written in c. 1660

NCA 11980, Charter of Henry VI confirming College's Newton Longville estates, 1441

NCA 13120, Receipt (in Norman-French) by William Wichard of Takeley to the Prior of Takeley (Essex) for 20 oaks and 20,000 tiles delivered, 24 June 1339

Foundation Charter of William of Wykeham's college, witnessed by John de Swaffham, notary, 1379

NCA 960, Orders of the Warden and Thirteen concerning Song Room, Library, organ, 27 June 1776

NCA 1195, Renatus Harris's agreement to alter New College's organ, February 1713

NCA 957, Signatures of Warden Pincke and the Fellows, from Orders Book of the Warden and Thirteen, 1636

NCA JCR/L2/10, New College Rugby Club, 1902

NCA DB/11, Photograph of New College servants, in front of Oxford's medieval city wall in New College Gardens, c. 1957-58 (© Gillman & Soame)

NCA JCR/L2/6, Leonard Greenwood (matriculated 1919 after war service), 1919

NCA JCR/L2/6, New College Cricket XI, 1919

NCA JCR/R/Elkington, Photograph of New College Barge with spectators watching the Summer Eights, 1909

NCA JCR/Q2/3, Photograph of New College Essay Society members, including Herbert A.L. Fisher (back row, in subfusc), Lionel Pigot Johnson, celebrated 1890s poet (front row, first on the left), and Campbell Dodgson, future Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum and son-in-law of Warden Spooner (front row, third from left), 1888

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