Compendium physicæ ex authoribus extractum, 1714

Manuscript copy of Charles Morton’s Compendium Physicae prepared by copyist Robert Ward in 1714. The leather-bound volume includes text and drawings, and there is an index to the chapters of the book at the end of the volume. "Thomas Greaves's book Octob 1 Anno Salutis 1714" inscribed on flyleaf. Thomas Greaves may refer to the Charlestown physician and judge and member of the Harvard Class of 1703.

Journal and orderly book : manuscript, 1758 May-Oct

Copied orders and narrative entries of a military expedition to Schenectady and the Oneida station.

Dekâiku'l-hakâik : manuscript, undated

A work on subtleties of Persian vocabulary. Discusses nuances of and differences in meaning between homographs or near-homographs and words derived from similar stems. Pronunciations, etymologies, differences in usage discussed. Poems used as examples.

An English oration : 1783

Paper notebook containing a handwritten copy of an essay titled "An English Oration" composed by Harrison Gray Otis for the 1783 Harvard Commencement. The essay discusses the American Revolution and begins, “An Omission of the usual appeals..."

Hādhā Sharḥ Dīwān Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥajar al-Kindī

[li-ʻĀṣim ibn Ayyūb al-Baṭalyawsī].

Hādhā mukhtaṣar kitāb Qaṭf al-azhār min al-Khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār, mukhtaṣar al-Khiṭaṭ lil-Maqrīzī / lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... Sibṭ Āl al-Ṣiddīq Mawlānā Abū al-Surūr al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, from 17 to 25 lines per page, in black ink, framed within double red lines.

Hādhā kitāb al-Iʻlām tārīkh Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām wa-al-niṣf al-thānī Tawārīkh Āl ʻUthmān / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām al-Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Makkī : manuscript, undated

Bound in half leather and boards.

Netâicü'l-fünûn / li-Nev'î Efendi : manuscript, undated

Concise encyclopedia on twelve sciences: 1. history; 2. philosophy; 3. astronomy; 4. theology; 5. principles of law; 6. controverted points; 7. exegesis; 8. mysticism; 9. interpretation of dreams; 10. magic, charm, and medecine; 11. agriculture; 12. astrology and divination.

Kitāb al-Ḥujjah fī sariqāt ibn Ḥijjah / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ... Abī ʻAbd Allāh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Nawājī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, undated

Missing leaves at the end.

Sharḥ al-Ḥamāsah : manuscript, undated

Volume 1 of a two-volume set.

Nuzhat al-nāẓirīn fī tārīkh man waliya Miṣr min al-khulafāʼ wa-al-nāṣirīn : manuscript, 1777

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تعال قال العبد الفقير الى الله تعالاى مرعي بن يوسف الحنبلي ... :Incipit

Kalimāt al-shuʻarāʼ : manuscript, undated

Unbound.

Observations on the courts of law in Nova Scotia, Canada, 1775

Contains a discussion of the organization of the courts in Nova Scotia and recommends changes to allow for greater efficiency and logical administration of cases through the system of justice.

Lawyer's commonplace book, 1774-1783

Contains entries on a variety of topics arranged alphabetically and compiled by several individuals. Includes an index at the end.

Student essay composed by Curtis Guild, 1795

Two-page handwritten essay written in English by Curtis Guild when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The essay is titled with a quote in Latin from Virgil, "Omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis," that translates as, “All the fond Parent’s Care centers in Ascanio.” The essay begins, “The machinery of man is wonderful…” and discusses parental affection. The essay is signed “C Guild” and dated May 7, 1795.