‘Tombstone Inscriptions in the Churchyard of St. Lawrence’s, Upton-cum-Chalvey, Slough’, Notes and Queries 145 (1923), pp. 426-27; 146 (1924), pp. 94-96; 147 (1924), pp. 22- 24.
‘The Scribes of the Trinity Homilies’, Medium Ævum 1 (1932), pp. 138-40.
Review: ‘The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry, ed. R. W. Chambers, Max Förster, and Robin Flower’, Medium Ævum 2 (1933), pp. 224-31.
‘The Date of the ‘Tremulous’ Worcester Hand’, Leeds Studies in English 6 (1937), pp. 28- 29.
‘Membra Disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly 12 (1938), pp. 130-35.
‘The Hague Manuscript of the Epistola Cuthberti de Obitu Bedae with Bede’s Song’, Medium Ævum 8 (1939), pp. 40-44.
‘Membra Disiecta, Second Series’, British Museum Quarterly 14 (1940), pp. 79-86.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books (London: Royal Historical Society, 1941; 2nd ed., 1964; and Supplement to the 2nd ed., ed. Andrew G. Watson, 1987).
‘Aldred the Scribe’, Essays and Studies 28 (Oxford for the English Association, 1942), pp. 7-12.
‘The Migration of Manuscripts from the English Medieval Libraries’, The Library 23 (1942), pp. 1-11.
‘William of Malmesbury’s Handwriting’, English Historical Review 59 (1944), pp. 371-76.
‘Hemming’s Cartulary: A Description of the Two Worcester Cartularies in Cotton Tiberius A. xiii’, in Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke, ed. R. W. Hunt, W. A. Pantin, and R. W. Southern (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948), pp. 49- 75.
‘Medieval Manuscripts from Norwich Cathedral Priory’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 1 (1949), pp. 1-28.
‘Old English Notes Signed “Coleman”’, Medium Ævum 18 (1949), pp. 29-31.
‘Salisbury Cathedral Manuscripts and Patrick Young’s Catalogue’, Wiltshire Archaeological Society Magazine 53 (1949), pp. 153-83.
‘Chaining from a Staple on the Back Cover,’ Bodleian Library Record 3 (1950), pp. 104-107.
‘Patrick Young’s Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral’, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2 (1950), pp. 151-68.
Introduction to The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle edited from Gonville and Caius College MS 234/120, ed. R.M. Wilson, Early English Text Society OS 229 (London: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 434.
Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts Used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, with a Survey of Oxford Binding, c. 1515-1620, Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications NS 5 (Oxford: Broome Press), 1954.
‘The Chaining, Labelling, and Inventory Numbers of Manuscripts Belonging to the Old University Library’, Bodleian Library Record 5 (1954-56), pp. 176-80.
‘Sir John Prise’, The Library 10 (1955), pp. 1-24.
The Pastoral Care: King Alfred’s Translation of St. Gregory’s Regula Pastoralis: MS. Hatton 20 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, MS. Cotton Tiberius B. xi in the British Museum, MS. Anhang 19 in the Landesbibliothek at Kassel, Early English Manuscript Facsimiles, 6 (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1956).
‘A Palimpsest in the National Library of Scotland [Advocates MSS 18.6. 12, 18.7.7, 18.7.8]: Early Fragments of Augustine “De Trinitate”, the “Passio S. Laurentii”and other texts’, Transactions of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 3 (1948-55), pp. 169-78.
Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. with Supplement [Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991]).
English Manuscripts in the Century After the Norman Conquest: The Lyell Lectures, 1952-53 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960).
‘From “Above Top Line”to “Below Top Line”: A Change in Scribal Practice’, Celtica 5 (1960), pp. 13-16.
‘Oxford College Libraries in the Sixteenth Century’, Sandars Lectures in Bibliography, Cambridge, 1955, Bodleian Library Record 6 (1957-61), pp. 59-515.
‘The Virgin and Child Binder, LVL, and William Horman’, The Library 17 (1962), pp. 77- 85.
Introduction The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle: Ancrene Wisse. Edited from MS. Corpus Christi College Cambridge 402 by J.R.R. Tolkien, Early English Text Society OS 249 (London: Oxford University Press, 1962).
Introduction to The Owl and the Nightingale: Reproduced in Facsimile from the Surviving Manuscripts Jesus College Oxford 29 and British Museum Cotton Caligula A. ix, Early English Text Society OS 251 (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
Introduction to The Facsimile of British Museum MS. Harley 2253, Early English Text Society OS 255 (London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
‘Cathedral Libraries’, Library History 1 (1967), pp. 38-45.
The Will of Æthelgifu: A Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript, trans. Dorothy Whitelock, and with a Note Neil Ker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 45-48.
Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol. I: London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).
‘The Handwriting of Archbishop Wulfstan’, in England Before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock, ed. Peter Clemoes and Kathleen Hughes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), pp. 315-31.
ed., Records of All Souls College Library, 1437-1600, Bibliographical Society Publications 16 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).
‘Kenneth Sisam, 1887-1971’, Proceedings of the British Academy 58 (1974), pp. 409-26.
‘The Beginnings of Salisbury Cathedral Library’, In Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Richard William Hunt, ed. J.G. Alexander and M.T. Gibson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) pp. 23-49.
‘A Supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon’, Anglo-Saxon England 5 (1976), pp. 121-31.
Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol II: Abbotsford-Keele (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977).
‘Copying an Exemplar: Two Manuscripts of Jerome on Habakkuk’, in Miscellanea Codicologica F. Masai: Dicata MCMLXXIX, ed. P. Cockshaw, M.-C. Garand, and P. Jodogne (Ghent: Story-Scientia, 1979), pp. 203-10.
Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol III: Lampeter-Oxford, ed. A. G. Watson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983)
‘The Provision of Books’, in The History of the University of Oxford, ed. J. McConica (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), pp. 3: 441-519.
with A. J. Piper. Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, Vol. IV: Paisley-York (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).