Rules and orders relating to a Professor of the Mathematicks, of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, in Harvard College, 18 January 1726

This folder contains a single document describing the "rules and orders" of the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. The document begins by defining the subjects to be taught by the Hollis Professor including natural and experimental philosophy, elements of geometry, and the principles of astronomy and geography. It then outlines the number of public and private lectures to be given to students, how much extra time the professor should spend with students reviewing any difficulties they may encounter understanding class subject matter discussed, and stipulates that the professor's duties shall be restricted solely to his teaching activities and not involve him in any religious activities at the College or oblige him to teach any additional studies other than those specified for the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Furthermore, the rules establish the professor's salary at £80 per year and allow the professor to receive from students, except those students studying theology under the Hollis Professor of Divinity, an additional fee as determined by the Corporation and Board of Overseers, to supplement his income. Moreover, the rules assert that all professorship candidates selected by the Harvard Corporation must be approved by Thomas Hollis during his lifetime or by his executor after his death. Finally, the rules state that the Hollis professor take an oath to the civil government and declare himself a member of the Protestant reformed religion. This document is signed by Thomas Hollis and four witnesses, John Hollis, Joshua Hollis, Richard Solly, and John Williams.

Hādhā kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-uns fī sharḥ Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd

[sharḥ Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-ʻUṭhmānī (al-Fanārī) ; taṣḥīḥ Mīrzā Ḥāshim ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kīlānī al-Ashkūrī].

Hādhā kitāb al-Simṭ al-ʻabqarī fī sharḥ al-ʻIqd al-jawharī fī al-farq bayna kasbay al-Māturidī wa-al-Ashʻarī

al-matn min muṣannafāt al-Shaykh Khālid Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ; wa-al-sharḥ min muʼallafāt al-muḥaqqiq al-almaʻī wa-al-mudaqqiq al-lawzaʻī ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥamdī Afandī al-Kharpūtī, al-shahīr bi-Ibn shāriḥ al-Burdah.

Bulūgh al-arab bi-taḥrīr al-nisab / li-Mawlānā al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Humām Sībawayh zamānih wa-Farīd ʻaṣrih wa-awānih al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Ghunaymī al-Anṣārī : manuscript, [1622]

According to a muqābalah note on f. 11r, copy is collated with the author's copy in the presence of the author. The author signed the copy in his handwriting in the last days of Shaʻbān 1031 AH [June 1622 AD].

Ajwibat al-asʼilah al-ithnay ʻashar fī al-ʻulūm al-ithnay ʻashar : wa-hiya al-ṣarf wa-al-naḥw wa-al-fiqh wa-al-ḥadīth wa-al-tafsīr wa-al-kalām wa-al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-manṭiq wa-al-ḥikmah wa-al-hayʼah / li-Ibn Abī Bakr al-Kurdī : manuscript, 1582

Title from f. 1r.