Mathematical notebook attributed to Thaddeus Mason Harris, ca. 1787

Hardcover notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of rules, cases, and examples from 18th century mathematical texts. The author and purpose of the volume is unclear, though it has been connected with Thaddeus Mason Harris (Harvard AB 1787). Most of the entries include questions and related answers, suggesting the notebook was used as a manuscript textbook and workbook. The extracts appear to be copied from John Dean's " Practical arithmetic" (published in 1756 and 1761), Daniel Fenning's "The young algebraist's companion" (published in multiple editions beginning in 1750), and Martin Clare's "Youth's introduction to trade and business" (extracts first included in 1748 edition).

An Hebrew grammar, collected chiefly from those of Mr. Israel Lyons, teacher of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge; and the Rev. Richard Grey, D.D. rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire: To which is subjoined a praxis, taken from the sacred classics, and containing a specimen of the whole Hebrew language: with a sketch of the Hebrew poetry

as retrieved by Bishop Hare ...

Popery a complex falsehood: or an attempt to clear and evidence, that it is so, in a lecture had at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, on May 10th, 1769

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 30-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Samuel Mather on May 10, 1769 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Thess. 11:11, 12. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The item has unattached pages and is in fragile condition. The lecture was never published.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa: dividid into all its governments, together with the other territories that are tributary to it, as also the dominions of ye Emperor of Marocco [sic] according to the newest and most exact observations

by H. Moll.

Hādhihi Risālah fī al-ijāzah / lil-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Awḥad al-Mutqin Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr ibn Salīm al-Hamadānī al-Iskandarī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1865 or 6

Cream laid paper.

The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestates: in Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript

with a verbal translation and explanatory notes by William Jones.

Hādhihi risālat Iḍāʼat al-badrayn fī tarjamat al-Shaykhayn / lil-ʻAllāmah Sayyidī al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī. manuscript, undated

Holograph copy. f. 61r: "hādhihi bi-khaṭṭ al-muʼallif raḥimahu allāh."

Kitāb al-ʻIqd al-jawhar al-thamīn fī arbaʻīn ḥadīthan min aḥādīth Sayyid al-Mursalīn / taʼlīf Khātimat al-muḥaddithīn al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī al-Jarrāḥī manuscript, 1900

Copy completed on 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1317 [March 24, 1900] in the hand of Aḥmad Fahmī al-ʻAṭṭār al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī "naqlan ʻan nuskhat al-Kuzbarī al-Kabīr."

ʻUshārīyāt al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Abī al-Faḍl Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, [1512]

Copy completed in the hand of Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī, most probably in 918 [1512].

al- Khiṣāl al-mukaffirah lil-dhunūb al-muqaddamah wa-al-muʼakhkharah : manuscript, undated

Bound with: Risālat al-Surūr fī ḥaqq wālidayhi ʻalayhi al-salām / Sājaqlīzādah (ff. 1r-8v).

Hādhā kitāb ʻIqd al-jawhar al-thamīn fī arbaʻīn ḥadīthan min aḥādīth Sayyid al-mursalīn jamʻ al-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah al-Imām muḥaddith Bilād al-Shām Ismāʻīl al-Jarrāḥī al-shahīr bi-al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, 1849

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

Maslak al-sadād ilá masʼalat khalq afʻāl al-ʻibād / taḥrīr ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī thumma al-Madanī : manuscript, 1684

Title from f. 1r.

Imdād dhawī al-istiʻdād li-sulūk maslak al-sadād / taḥrīr ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī al-Madanī : manuscript, 1685

Title from f. 26r.

Narratives to be recited at the commemorative assembly (majlis) held on the 10th and 20th days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imām Ḥusain : manuscript, 1890?

Title provided by cataloger.