Septenary : manuscript, 1737-1745, 1755

Diary dated 1737 Sept. 19-1745 Aug. 19, chiefly concerns Robbins' personal religious faith. Also includes notes for a sermon on the death of Maj. Isaac Foot, who died in the French and Indian War.

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 ...

Diary : manuscript, 1666-1679, 1723, and 1726

Diary concerning chiefly religious matters, mostly Puritanical confessions of Tompson's piety not living up to the expectation of the Lord. There is also mention of the many afflictions God is "pleased" to bestow upon Tompson's wife.

Mathematical notebook, and commonplace book, circa 1689-1769

Manuscript notebook, possibly kept by Harvard students, containing 17th century English transcriptions of arithmetic and geometry texts, one of which is dated 1689-1690; 18th century transcriptions from John Ward’s “The Young Mathematician’s Guide”; and notes on physics lectures delivered by John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. The notebook also contains 18th century reading notes on Henry VIII, Tudor succession, and English history from Daniel Neal’s “The History of the Puritans” and David Hume’s “History of England,” and notes on Ancient history, taken mainly from Charles Rollin’s “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.” Additionally included are an excerpt from Plutarch’s “Lives” and transcriptions of three articles from “The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle,” published in 1769: “A Critique on the Works of Ovid”; a book review of “A New Voyage to the West-Indies”; and “Genuine Anecdotes of Celebrated Writers, &.” The flyleaf contains the inscription “Semper boni aliquid operis facito ut diabolus te semper inveniat occupatum,” a variation on a quote of Saint Jerome that translates approximately as “Always good to do some work so that the devil may always find you occupied.” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks. Winthrop used Ward’s textbook in his class, while the books of Hume, Neal, and Rollin were used in history courses taught at Harvard in the 18th century.

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.

Relation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer: autrefois ministre protestant à Boston, en l'Amérique Septentrionale, converti à la religion catholique à Rome, le 25 de mai 1783 et prêtre depuis la Trinité 1787 / manuscript, [after 1788]

écrite par lui-même en 1788 :

Asar-i Şeyh Seyyid Mustafa Beyzade

Terceme-yi ahval-i Beyzade Mustafa Efendi -- Mevlid ün-Nebi -- Menasik ül-hac -- Naẓm al-nāṣiḥīn -- Silsilat al-Naqshabandīyah -- Muqaddimat al-Qaṣīdah al-durrīyah -- al-Qaṣīdah al-durrīyah -- Qaṣāʼid -- Şeyh Hafiz Mehmed al-Hisari'nin tarih-i irtihali -- Taqrīḍ Sharḥ al-Qāmūs -- Taqrīḍ Sharḥ al-Iḥyāʼ -- Murtaza Efendi'nin kaside-yi sabikaya takrizidir -- Beyzade Efendinin Yusufzade'ye verdiği icazetname -- Murad Molla Tekyesi şeyhi Abdülhalim Efendi'ye verdiği izinname -- Boluvi el-Hac Mustafa Efendi'ye verdiği icazetname -- Halil Efendi'ye verdiği icazetname -- Rizevi Ali Efendi'ye verilen icazetname -- Murtaza Efendi'nin Beyzade Efendi'ye i[r]sal eylediği mektub -- Beyzade Efendi'den Murtaza Efendi'ye tahrir olunan mektub -- Geyve Müftüsü Efendi'ye tahrir olunmuştur -- Kastamonu Müftüsüne irsal olunan mektubudur -- Hafiz Efendi'nin Beyzade Efendi'ye yazdıkları tezkire -- Beyzade Efendi hazretlerinin tezkireye cevapları -- Risālat al-Sulūk lil-Shaykh Beyzade -- Çorumlu Ebubekir Efendi'nin risale-yi manzumelerine takrizdir -- Cevab-ı mektub -- Medhiye-yi Abdülkadir el-Geylani -- İşbu salat-i şerife Beyzade Efendiden mervidir -- Risālat al-maʻlūm wa-al-majhūl.

Kashf al-qināʻ fī taḍmīn al-ṣunnāʻ

[al-Ḥasan ibn Raḥḥāl al-Tadlāwī].

Hādhā kitāb Īḍāḥ al-dalālāt fī samāʻ al-ālāt

li-ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī.

Kitāb Bahjat al-asrār wa-maʻdan al-anwār fī baʻḍ manāqib al-quṭb al-Rabbānī wa-al-ghawth al-Ṣamadānī wa-al-baḥr al-zākhir al-nūrānī ṣāḥib al-maqām al-ʻalī Muḥyī al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī

taʼlīf Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf Abī Faḍl al-Shaṭnūbī. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Riyāḍ al-basātīn fī akhbār al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī Muḥyī al-Dīn taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Kīlānī al-Tūnisī.

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 taʻlīqah laṭīfah fī-mā yataʻallaq bi-qawl al-Nabīy ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam "ḥubbiba ilayya min dunyākum al-nisāʼ wa-al-ṭīb wa-juʻilat qurrat ʻaynī fī al-ṣalāt" / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn ʻumdat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-muḥaddithīn Sayyidī Abū al-Suʻūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakī al-Dīn al-Khazrajī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1685

Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Title written in green and red ink.

Ijāzat Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār li-Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān : manuscript, [ca. 1780-1800]

An ijāzah issued by Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār to his student Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān. The student's name is mentioned on fol. 1v; the master's name on fol. 6r. In the ijāzah al-ʻAṭṭār traces his authority back to al-Qasṭallānī's al-Mawāhib al-ladunnīyah, then to al-Shāfiʻī, and then gives his isnād of a musalsal ḥadīth.

Risālat Taʻrīf al-ṣirāh fī sulūk al-ghuzāh / min taʼlīf ʻAlī ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn al-Hindī al-mashhūr bi-al-Muttaqī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black ink.

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-silāk fī faḍl al-siwāk / min kalām sayyidinā al-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh taʻālá al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Zāhid : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, 23-24 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.