Orleans, France, ca. 1680 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville d'Orleans : comme il est aujourd'huy, où sont representées en elevation les églises, palais et autres edifices. It was published by Chez le Sr. Iselin, au bas du Pont au Change between 1680 and 1715. Scale [ca. 1:4,625]. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Selected features shown pictorially. Includes also a brief history of the city.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Rhine River Region, ca. 1680 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Neueste Beschreibung des gantzen Rhein-Stroms. It was published by Johann Christoph Lochner, Buchhandler, ca. 1680. Scale [ca. 1:930,000]. Covers the Rhine River region. Map in German.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, roads, cities and other human settlements, fortifications, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also 15 city views: Bonn, Brysach, Bingen, Rheinfelden, Speyer, Maintz, Bacharach, Trarbach, Basel, Strasburg, Andernach, Wormbs, Cobolentz, Cöllen, Heydelberg.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Africa, ca. 1680-1689 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Africa : divisa in suas principales partes, nempè : imperia, monarchias, regna, principatus, et insulas, per Sr. Sansonium, geographum Regis Galliae ordinarium ; [cartouche] Sigmund Gabriel Hipschmann scul. It was published by Johannem Hoffmannum between 1680 and 1689. Scale [ca. 1:16,500,000]. Covers Africa and small portions of southern Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Map in Latin.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Ḥawāshin ʻalá fann al-umūr al-ʻāmmah min Sharḥ al-Mawāqif : manuscript, [ca. 1700]

Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black and red.

Father Abbey's Will, undated

Handwritten copy of Father Abbey's Will, on one leaf of unlined paper. The Cambridge verse is written on the front of the document, and the New Haven verse is written on the verso. The document is attached to a second leaf of blank paper bearing the handwritten title "Copy of Old Ballad" on the verso.

Photostat copy of Cambridge in New England December ..., undated

Long and narrow six-page photostat copy of a manuscript copy of Father Abbey's Will.

Photostat copy of On the Death of Old Abdy Sweeper at Harvard College in Cambridge, undated

Photostat copy of a three-page poem based on Father Abbey's Will, beginning "Ah mournfull found in Abdy ye small is dead / and with him all our ease and joy is fled." There is no provided information about the author, date, or owner of the original volume.

I. Calculation of the length of printed lines of all the volumes in the Harvard Library, ca. 1789

This series contains one small leaf with handwritten calculations related to the number of volumes in the Harvard College Library. The verso has the note: "No. of Vol: in Harvard College 11465 vol. making one line 15380 miles long. The document is in the hand of Loammi Baldwin Sr., and may have been created in 1789 while the Library was compiling a catalog of its holdings.

I. Calculation of the length of printed lines of all the volumes in the Harvard Library, ca. 1789

This series contains one small leaf with handwritten calculations related to the number of volumes in the Harvard College Library. The verso has the note: "No. of Vol: in Harvard College 11465 vol. making one line 15380 miles long. The document is in the hand of Loammi Baldwin Sr., and may have been created in 1789 while the Library was compiling a catalog of its holdings.

[ Fetâvâ] : manuscript, 1132 [ca. 1720 C.E.]

A typical fatwa collection covering almost all aspects of law: prayers, ablution, alms, fasting, divorce, capital punishment, etc.

Risālah fī iʻrāb al-rabb min Allāhumma Rabb hādhihi al-daʻwah / lil-fāḍil al-kāmil Ṣibghat Allāh ibn Mawlawī Muḥammad Ghawth ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad : manuscript, [ca. 1848]

Title from f. 50r.

Notebook, ca. 1714

Paper notebook with Latin text including theses titled "Divisio deber constare partibus paucissimis," "Forma dat esse rei --Theses primae," "Simile non agit in simile probabir à Mr T. Foxcroft in Thesis hâc," and "Lux est Corpus probatur 1712 Thesis." The notebook includes unattached pages of various sizes and a paper fragment.

Notebook, ca. 1714

Paper notebook of Latin grammar including verb conjugations.

Lux est Corpus, ca. 1714

Single folded piece of paper with Latin text titled "Lux est Corpus."

Antithesis: Elementa in propriis..., ca. 1714

Paper notebook comprised of two folded sheets of paper with Latin texts.