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.

Dhikr maʻrifat aḥzāb al-Qurʼān wa-anṣāfihi wa-arbāʻih : manuscript, undated

Title from caption (fol. 1v).

Taʻlīq laṭīf ʻalá al-Rāmizah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfiyah : manuscript, 1640 or 1641

Copied in 1050 AH? [1640 or 41 AD?].

al- Khazrajīyah : manuscript, 1640

Copied in 1050 AH? [1640 or 1641 AD?]

al- Sāmī fī al-asāmī : manuscript, 1251

Written in one column, from 19 (ff. 1r-92v) to 21 (ff. 93r-114v) lines per page, in black now faded and red.

Student notebook of Thomas Prince, ca. 1707

Paper notebook in Latin on classical Greek grammar. The name "Thomas Prince" appears on the first page. The manuscript is undated. Based on the signature, this volume is assumed to have belonged to Thomas Prince, Sr., although it is undated and may have indeed belonged to Thomas Prince, Jr.

Student lecture notes of Benjamin Peirce, 1797-1798

This collection contains approximately twenty-three handwritten lecture summaries on six leaves made by Harvard undergraduate Benjamin Peirce between September 1797 and November 22, 1798. The summaries generally provide a few sentences describing the topic covered and primarily pertain to lectures on English grammar delivered by Eliphalet Pearson, the Hollis Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. There are also summaries for single lectures by David Tappan, the Hollis Professor Divinity; Samuel Webber, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John Snelling Popkin, the Greek Tutor from 1795 to 1798, and later the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. There is also an undated summary of a lecture by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic.

Journal and orderly book : manuscript, 1758 May-Oct

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

Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ : manuscript, 1682

Written in one column, from 6 to 23 lines per page, in black and red.

Sharḥ abyāt al-Muṭawwal : manuscript, 1703

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black and red.

Kitāb Sharḥ al-istiʻārāt / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Mallawī : manuscript, 1850

Author's own abridgement of his longer work "ʻIqd al-durar al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah".

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.

Usul-i fıkıhtan haşiyeli Mecami ül-hakaik

[Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá Khādimī].