Letter from William Croswell to Mr. B, [ca. 1829]

Draft of a letter regarding Croswell's study of the New Testament.

Writings on Islamic divination : manuscript, [ca. 1592]

Title supplied by cataloger.

Kitāb Mufarriḥ al-nafs / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Sharaf al-Dīn Ab�� Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ab�� al-Futūḥ al-Baghdādī thumma al-Māridīnī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marah : manuscript, [ca. 1530]

The author's name appears as ابن المره in title page (f. 1r) and ابن المراه at the beginning of the book (f. 1v).

Kitāb Mukālamāt ʻArab��yah : manuscript, [ca. 1783]

المقالة الأولى في حروف العربية ووضعهم في الكلام أول ذلك علىيد اليمين على جانب الشمال... :Incipit

Ḥizb al-baḥr / min taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-walī al-ʻārif al-quṭb al-jāmiʻ al-wārith Ab�� al-Ḥasan al-Ḥasanī al-Shādhilī : manuscript, [ca. 1360]

Paper. 15.7 x 11.4 cm. (13.3 x 9.3 cm.).

Suʼāl wārid ʻalá al-Shaykh al-Ahdal wa-al-jawāb ʻanhu : manuscript, [ca. 1918]

Bound with: Risālah / ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūr.

al- Juzʼ al-thālith wa-al-arbaʻūn min Sharḥ Kitāb Sībawayh / taʼlīf al-Qāḍī Ab�� al-Saʻīd al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī : manuscript, [ca. 979]

Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.

Risālah fī iʻrāb al-rabb min Allāhumma Rabb hādhihi al-daʻwah / lil-fāḍil al-kāmil Ṣibghat Allāh ibn Mawlawī Muḥammad Ghawth ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad : manuscript, [ca. 1848]

Title from f. 50r.

A Chaldee grammar, founded upon the writings of Daniel and Ezra, ca. 1776

This manuscript grammar notebook, written in Chaldean Aramaic and English, appears to have originally belonged to William Bentley (Harvard A.B. 1777); Bentley's name and a date, "December 1776," appear on the volume but have been struck through, and the handwriting appears to be his. The names of Elisha Parmele and Polly Parmele are also on the volume; presumably it was given to Elisha by Bentley, and upon Elisha's death in 1784 it was passed to Polly.

[Figures related to the University of Cambridge, ca. 1800]

Four pieces of paper containing notes and figures related to colleges in the University of Cambridge including calculations of the number of fellows, scholars, and masters. The verso of one leaf contains a February 21, 1800 request for the creation of a pamphlet with eulogies for George Washington.

[Notes from the minutes of the Board of Overseers, ca. 1799]

Small notebook containing handwritten entries of actions for the years 1718-1799 recorded in Volumes I-IV of the Harvard Board of Overseers formal meeting minutes. The entries note the appointment of Committees of inquiry and votes related to salary increases and allowances.

L.B.'s letter respecting excuse to president of College, 1797 August 31

Brief handwritten note to Loammi Baldwin from his son requesting a written excuse to be sent to the Harvard President for his absence on election day.

[Copy of Edward Hopkins' will], [ca. 1713]

Handwritten copy of Edward Hopkins' 1657 will. Labeled on the verso as document "B."

Thaddeus Mason Harris' working documents regarding subject-based library catalog, ca. 1790

Thaddeus Mason Harris, who served as interim librarian of the Harvard College Library in 1787 and as its librarian from 1791 through 1793, is believed to have created these notes while helping compile the library's first printed subject-based catalog. The catalog, Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, was published in 1790 and represented a significant change in approach to the cataloging of the library's collections, which had formerly been cataloged alphabetically. These documents, many of them on small scraps of paper, contain the titles and bibliographic information of books on a range of topics, from "Anatomici" to "Rhetorica."