The Taylor Institution (commonly known as the Taylorian) is the Oxford University library dedicated to the study of the languages of Europe.

Since the Bodleian Library lacked space, the Taylorian was initially used to house things as varied as Stubbs's lectures on English history and the Hope collection of butterflies.

[3] The institution and its library are found in the east wing of a neo-classical building at the southern end of St Giles'.

Italian works run from Dante and Tasso through one of the largest collections of Giovanni Battista Guarini's seminal Il Pastor fido to Foscolo and Futurist manifestos.

The Spanish and Portuguese collections contain early editions of Lope de Vega, Camoens, Cervantes, Góngora, Quevedo, and Calderón.