Iṣlāḥ al-taqwīm

taʼlīf al-Ghāzī Aḥmad Mukhtār Pāshā ; tarjamahu lil-ʻArabīyah Shafīq Manṣūr Yakan.

Kitāb Shams al-taḥqīq wa-ʻurwat ahl al-tawfīq

lil-Imām Aḥmad ibn Sharqāwī. Wa-yalīhā kitāb Naṣīḥat al-dhākirīn wa-irghām al-mukābirīn / lil-Ustādh al-madhkūr. Muṭarrizan hāmishahā bi-al-risālah al-musammāh bi-al-Asinnah al-faʻʻālah fī akbād man ankara ʻalá al-ustādh marartu ʻalá al-jalālah / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Muḥaqqiq Mawlānā al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Miṣrī al-Jirjāwī.

Majālis al-muttaqīn

[Muḥammad Taqī ibn Muḥammad al-Baraghānī].

Ḥuṣūl al-faraj wa-ḥulūl al-faraḥ fī mawlid man unzila ʻalayhi a-lam nashraḥ

lil-Sayyid al-Muwaqqiʻ.

Kitāb Sharḥ Ibn Qāsim al-ʻAbbādī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Waraqāt lil-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī : manuscript, 1649

According to the colophon (f. 60r), copy completed on 16 Rajab 1059 AH [July, 25, 1649 AD].

Library catalogue notes of Isaac Smith, ca. 1789

Thirteen slips of paper with fragments of handwritten alphabetical lists created by Isaac Smith presumably in his capacity as Harvard Librarian. Most of the entries are surnames or single-word subjects. For example, one slip with "M" entries includes: milway, miracles, miraculous, Mitchell, and Mitchell. Some of the lists have struck-through words or have entries annotated with numbers and the abbreviations "o" and "bk." The verso of one leaf has a brief, undated note regarding the transfer of books between Mr. Hilliard and Mr. Smith.

Judge's notes on cases heard in Lincoln County (Maine), 1788-1789?

Includes notes and summaries of witnesses' testimony on cases involving contracts and land disputes. One pamphlet bears note "Lincolns. July 7th 1789. Pownalboro. Supreme Court." Pownalborough Court House is in Dresden, Maine, which succeded from Pownalborough. In 1804, the town Pownalborough was renamed Wiscasset.

Annotated almanac, 1788

Almanac interleaved with pages containing household account entries and containing annotations on the calendar pages. The interleaved pages contain entries of baptisms and burials, accounting records and notes of household activities, including entries related to boarders. One of the pages has a short list of some topics in the periodical The Spectator.

Themes and reviews, 1788-1805

Small notebook with brown paper covers containing handwritten entries noting the essay topics given to students between 1788 and 1805 according to class. The prompts are in both English and Latin and are generally philosophical quotations or verse from poetry that students responded to in short essays. There is a small handwritten chart for "A Scheme for a Lottery for a New College" laid into the back of the volume.

Journal of College Disorders, 1788-1797

This journal contains entries about various student "disorders" which occurred during Eliphalet Pearson’s tenure at Harvard. Daily entries describe a wide range of students’ rebellious conduct, which included: hissing at speakers in chapel, throwing snowballs and stones at College buildings and people (including tutors and then-President Joseph Willard), disrupting lectures by scraping chairs and feet, breaking windows, intoxication, moving and breaking furniture, stealing firewood, firing pistols, building bonfires, stealing supplies (food, cider and candles), throwing food and utensils during meals, stealing Bibles, wearing hats indoors, filling door locks with stones, drawing on lecture room walls with gravel, and silencing the morning chapel bell by filling it with molten pewter plates (stolen from the kitchen). There are also entries pertaining to more malicious offenses, including the drowning of a dog in a well. Several entries describe meetings of the College government to determine the appropriate punishments for each offense. Students were often fined, expelled, or suspended ("rusticated") for their unruly behavior.

List of students, 1789

Small notebook with brown paper covers containing handwritten lists of the members of the Harvard Classes of 1790, 1791, 1792, and 1793 (through Charles Jackson) with unidentified annotations next to some names of a, c, o, s, t, and x.