Commonplace book : manuscript, [16--]

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

Safīnat al-rāghib wa-dafīnat al-muṭālib

lil-Imām al-Rāghib.

Risālah-ʼi istidlālīyah

li-ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá al-Ṭarasūsī.

Hādhā kitāb Kashf al-labs ʻan ḥadīth waḍʻ al-yad ʻalá al-raʼs

li-ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Abī al-Makārim ʻAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī.

Hādhihi Ḥāshiyat al-Sharīf al-faqīḥ al-ʻallāmah al-shāriḥ al-Mahdī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khiḍr al-Wazzānī ʻalá Sharḥ Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī li-naẓm Alqāb al-ḥadīth li-Abī ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻArabī al-Fāsī

Lithograph.

Hādhā Arbaʻūn ḥadīthan : manuscript, 1824 or 5

According to the colophon (f. 117v), copy completed in the hand of ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Yazdī in 1240 AH [December 1824-5 AD].

Hādhihi risālat al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth al-musalsal bi-al-Dimashqīyīn / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻĀmil al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, [1749 or 1750]

Ownership statements on f. 1r signed ʻAlī al-ʻImādī, 1175 AH [1761 or 62 AD]; Ḥāmid al-Bakrī, 1192 AH [1178-9 AD]; Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd ibn Amīn al-Munayyir (or: al-Munīr), Jumādá al-Thānī 1243 [1827-8]. On fly leaf [1]: Muḥammad Saʻīd ... al-Ḥusaynī al-Dimashqī, Rabīʻ al-Awwal [1]282 [1865]; Muḥammad Abū al-... al-Ḥusaynī al-..., 17 Jumādá al-ūlá 1317 [1899];.

Rasāʼil mufīdah fī bayān mawḍūʻ ʻilm al-tafsīr wa-taʻrīfihi wa-istimdādihi wa-ghāyatihi / lil-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah mufīd al-ṭālibīn Muḥammad ibn Khalīfah ibn Ṣadr al-mudarrisīn al-Shaykh Saʻd al-Dīn al-Marḥūmī al-Shawbarī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.

Hādhihi awāʼil khuṭbat Tafsīr al-Baghawī : manuscript, [ca. 1567]

Bound with: Hādhihi qaṣīdah al-musammāh bi-Lāmīyat al-ʻajam / lil-Ṭughrāʼī.

Risālat sharḥ al-ʻashr fī maʻshar al-ḥashr / li-Mawlānā ibn Kamāl Bāshā : manuscript, 1584

Title from caption.

Remarks on ye Coll: Charter, Laws, etc. (manuscript copy), [1721]

One folio-sized leaf containing a two-page handwritten copy of a paper in Nicholas Sever's hand outlining his interpretation of Harvard records related to membership in the Harvard Corporation. This item is a different version of another copy in this collection (UAI 20.718 Box 1, Folder 3) The document begins, "When ye College was Incorporated it seems yt: all its Affairs were intirely (sic) put into ye hands of ye Corporation..."

The report of the committee about Harvard Coledge: presented to the Generall Court held the 3 of (3) month, 1654

Two folio-sized leaves with a handwritten draft of the May 3, 1654 report of a General Court Committee authorized to investigate the financial state of Harvard College. The report responds directly to eight questions raised in the September 10, 1653 Order of the General Court that established the Committee. The report provides summaries of Harvard's income sources and disbursements, offers recommendations regarding the President's salary and the allowances for the academic Fellows, steward, butler, and cook, and indicates specific contributions from local towns.