[ Portolan chart of eastern North and Central America and northern South America] : manuscript, 1659

Autograph (signed) map. Includes inscription: Made by Nicholas Comberford dwelling neare to the west end of the school house at the Sign of the Platt in Redcliffe. Anno 1659.

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.

Summons and recognizance for Hugh Woodcock, 1730

An early colonial summons and recognizance for Hugh Woodcock, who was charged with adultery. John Shoreland was surety for Woodcock's appearance in court. Woodcock failed to appear, and Shoreland failed to produce him, so the Court declared a default and ordered Shoreland's arrest and detention.

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 petitioners for settling His Majesties lands and islands lying between Nova Scotia and the province of Main in New England in America : manuscript, [ca. 1720]

Written in an unidentified hand, signed by Barkstead.

Qānūn dīwān al-rasāʼil: manqūl ʻan nuskhah khaṭṭīyah bi-Maktabat Kambritsh

li-Tāj al-Riyāsah Abī al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Munjib ibn Sulaymān al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ṣayrafī ; ʻuniya bi-nashrihi wa-al-taʻlīq ʻalayhi ʻAlī Bahjat.

Turcia Asiatica: exhibens Natoliam modernam, in suos beglirbegatus divisam, itemque reliquos beglirbegatus, sive gubernationes et Prœfecturas generales, in regionibus Georgiæ, Armeniæ, Mespotamiæ, Syriæ et Arabiæ sitos, una cum Mari Nigro, Mari Azowiensi, Mari di Marmora, et Mari Ægeo, atque adiacentibus Insulis : C. P. S. C. M. = Carte de la Turquie asiatique contenant la Natolie moderne divisée en les beglerbeys &

ex novissimis subsidiis ac relationibus ad normam legitimae proiectionis in usum belli praesentis delineata impensis homannianorum heredum.

Empire de la Porte ottomane en Europe, en Asie et en Afrique avec les pays qui lui sont tributaires

dressé par les Frères Lotter.

Regnum Persicum Imperium Turcicum in Asia Russorum Provinciae ad Mare Caspium: aliaequae regiones finitimae, item Ponti Euxini, Maris Caspii, ac Sinus Persici novissimae ac fidelissimae delineationes

Reinero et Josua Ottens.

A generall mapp of the Coast of Barbarie, where in are the Kingdoms, and Estates of Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli: also the Kingdoms, Estates and Deserts of Barca, Egipt, Libya, Biledulgerid, Segelmesse and Darha: with the circumjacent counteries

by Mounsieur Sanson ; rendred into English and illustrated by Richard Blome ; Francis Lamb Sculpit.

Ægypti recentior descriptio: Ægyptis & Turcis Elchibith, Arabibus Mesre & Misri, Hebræis Mitsraim

Covers Egypt and portions of Libya, Sudan and Israel including the Red Sea and the Nile.

Fī bayān mā dhakarahu Muḥammad Afandī al-Awaljī al-marsūl min ṭaraf al-dawlah al-ʻalīyah ilá Faransā wa-mā shāhadahu hunāk =: Traduction arabe de la relation de voyage en France de Mehmet Effendi, Ambassadeur de Turquie : manuscript, undated

بيان ما ذكره محمد افندي المرسول من طرف الدولة العلية إلى فرنسا وجميع ما شاهده هناك قال انه... :Incipit

Theatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadrigentesimũ: in quo tũ Imperii Romani tũ Barbarorum circumincolentium status ob oculos ponitur pars orientalis

Auctore Guillelmo Delisle.

Tuḥfat al-ʻIrāqayn : manuscript, 1604

Title supplied by cataloger.