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.

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.

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.

Sharḥ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb : manuscript, 1840

Title from f. 1v.

Sharḥ al-Nuzhah fī al-ghubār / lil-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Bayrūtī : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذي تحصى نعمة جميع الحساب... :Incipit

ʻUyūn al-ḥussāb fī fann al-ḥisāb : manuscript, undated

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb Taḥrīr uṣūl li-Ūqlīdis

min taʼlīf Khwajah Nasīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī = Euclidis Elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim / extraditione doctissimi Nasiridini Tusini nunc primum Arabicè impressi.

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.

Compedium of astrology, numerology and fortune-telling : manuscript, undated

Iran Jewett manuscript no. 7.

The natural history of Aleppo: containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood : together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases, particularly of the plague

by Alex. Russell.

Schachzabelbuch : manuscript, [ca. 1390]-1408

Schachzabelbuch (ff. 1-87r; incomplete at the beginning) -- Heil- und Segenssprüche (87r-88v) -- Tageszeiten (89r-144v) -- Kalender (145r-159v) -- Heil- und Segenssprüche (160r-v).

Commonplace book : manuscript, [16--]

Notes concerning verses of the Bible, and moral and religious issues.

Mathematics notebook : manuscript, 1782

With sections on numeration, surveying, trigonometry and other topics, accompanied by diagrams and hand-colored illustrations.