New York, 1799 Raster Image

This layer is a digitized geo-referenced raster image of a 1799 map of New York drawn by D.F. Sotzmann. These Sotzmann maps (10 maps of New England and Mid-Atlantic states) typically portray both natural and manmade features. They are highly detailed with symbols for churches, roads, court houses, distilleries, iron works, mills, academies, county lines, town lines, and more. Relief is usually indicated by hachures and country boundaries have also been drawn. Place names are shown in both German and English and each map usually includes an index to land grants. Prime meridians used for this series are Greenwich and Washington, D.C.

West Africa, 1799 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Charte des Reisewegs des Herrn Mungo Park : von Pisania am Gambia Fluss, bis Silla am Joliba oder Nieger, nebst seine Rückreise auf der südlichen Strasse nach Pisania, nach Her. Parks Beobachtungen, Bemerkungen u. Reisen entworfen von J. Rennell It was published by B.G. Hoffmann in 1799. Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000]. Covers a portion of West Africa. Map in German.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic 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, territorial boundaries, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes.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.

Hādhā al-kitāb fī ṣifat al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, sammaytuhu Afḍal al-zād li-yawm al-maʻād fī al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá khayr al-ʻibād / jamʻ kātibihi Muḥammad al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, 1837

1- al-Durrah al-zāhirah bi-taḍmīn al-Burʼah al-fājirah / lil-Shaykh Qāsim (printed text, paginated 1-15; ff. 1r-8r) -- 2. Afḍal al-zād li-yawm al-maʻād fī al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá khayr al-ʻibād (ff. 9r-28v) -- 3. On miracles of the Prophet (ff. 29r-32r) -- 4. Commentary on a verse from the Qurʼān (ff. 32v-34v) -- 5. Hādhihi Qaṣīdat Sayyidinā Muḥammad [A poem in praise of the Prophet] (f. 35r) -- 6. Hādhā Mawlid Sayyid al-awwalīn wa-al-ākhirīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib, 25 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1274 AH [November 12, 1857 AD] (ff. 36r-40v).