Commonplace book of Benjamin Penhallow, 1721-1724

This leather-bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Penhallow from books he read while he was a student at Harvard in the 1720s. The volume contains extracts from two texts: Johanis Henrici Alstedii's (John Henry Alsted / Johann Heinrich Alsted) Geometria Domini, and the anonymous text "The Legacy of a dying Father; bequeath'd to his Beloved Children, or Sundry Directions in Order unto a well Regulated Conversation," from 1724 (originally published in 1693-4). The last page of text in the volume contains the hymn "The Sacred Content of Praise" first published in 1734, and added after Penhallow's death.

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.

Hādhihi al-Maqāmāt al-Suyūṭīyah

li-Jalāl al-Dīn Sayyidī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī. Mudhayyalah bi-Maqāmah li-Ḥasan al-ʻAṭṭār.

Insularum Indiae Orientalis: nova descriptio

Ioannis Ianssonius.

Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiæ parte

per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio.

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.

Ægyptus antiqua divisa in Nomos

authore P. Duval Abbeviliense Regis Christianissimi geographo.

Hādhā kitāb Ḥusn al-muḥāḍarah fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah / lil-Imām al-Mujtahid al-Ḥafīẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Asyūṭī : manuscript, 1844

Vol. 1 of a multi-volume set.

Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah : manuscript, undated

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

Kitāb al-Wasāyil ilá maʻrifat al-awāyil / lil-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1509

Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Comments in the margins.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1694-1716

A collection of more than 80 short treatises by various authors on various topics as well as numerous excerpts from different sources.

Risālah fī ḥaqq wāliday al-Nabī ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam / lil-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1512

Copy completed on 5 Rajab 918 [September 16, 1512] in the hand of Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī.

Kitāb Sihām al-iṣābah fī al-daʻawāt al-mujābah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1512

Copy completed on 8 Rajab 918 [September 19, 1512] in the hand of Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī.

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].

Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf / taʾlīf al-Imām aʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mujtahid Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jalāl al-Dunyā wa-al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1584

Dated 992 [1584].