al- Fatāwá al-Sirājīyah

[ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī].

Fetvâlar : manuscript, undated

A collection of fetvās by various muftis.

Mârûzât : manuscript, undated

Title from colophon.

Mecmua : manuscript, undated

1. Turkish letter samples (ff. 1v-10v) -- 2. Risālah fī bayān ḥurmat shurb dukhān al-tunbāk / Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Nāfiʻ (ff. 11v-19v) -- 3. Risālah fī lubs al-aḥmar al-baḥt / Shaykh Qāsim (ff. 20v-21v) -- 4. Excerpt from Ibn al-ʻArabī (ff. 23v-24r) -- 5. Excerpt from Ayyuhā al-walad of al-Ghazzālī (ff. 26v-28r) -- 6. Excerpt from Kitāb Laṭāʼif al-adabīyah (ff. 30r-32r) -- 7. Şerh-i Hilyeti'n-Nebî (ff. 33r-35v) -- 8. Sharḥ Jannat al-asmāʼ wa-al-āyāt Allāh [sic] (ff. 35v-38v) -- 9. Fetvâlar (ff. 39v-96v) -- 10. ??? (ff. 98r-103v) -- 11. Persian and Turkish poems (ff. 104r-133r) -- 12. Manzume-i Nidâî Kaysûnîzâde (ff. 134v-157v) -- 13. Excerpts, hadiths and fatwas (ff. 158r-162r) -- Mā jāʼa fī ṭarīq al-taṣawwuf wa-arkānihi (ff. 162v-164v).

[ Fetâvâ] : manuscript, 1132 [ca. 1720 C.E.]

A typical fatwa collection covering almost all aspects of law: prayers, ablution, alms, fasting, divorce, capital punishment, etc.

Hādhihi al-Fatāwá lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khalīlī al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1735 or 6

Dated 1148 [1735-6] (f. 39r).

Declaration signed by Harvard students to not speak in the vernacular for one year, 1712 August 23

The declaration, handwritten in Latin and signed by members of the junior and sophomore classes (Harvard Classes of 1714 and 1715), promises that the undersigned will not use the vernacular but instead "whenever, at meals, at banquets,...in our rooms, in all our gatherings, wherever and whenever" will speak in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew through the next May. Additional Latin text appears on both the front and back of the document. The original is accompanied by a typed transcription and two partial handwritten translations. Note at top of original: "Script. Leonardo Dowding, Composit. a Tho. Foxcroft."

A copy of the general map the most part compiled from the actual survey by order of the commisioners appointed to settle the partition line between the provinces of New York and New Jersey : manuscript map, 1769

Map showing the whole of New Jersey and its borders with as well as part of Pennsylvania and New York. Map is drawn in black ink with green, pink, and yellow watercolors used to show features such as waterways, borders, and places of interest. Notes on map concern border disputes between New Jersey and New York.

Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789: taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice

Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts. (Formerly MS 2141.)

Letter to Samuel Dexter, 13 November 1796

Letter regarding a bankruptcy case, later heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1797 (3 Dallas 369; Emory v. Greenough) and the upcoming national election.

Letter to John Worthington: 13 August 1791

Letter to Worhtington, a Springfield, Massachusetts lawyer, regarding tax on a meeting house near Pittsfield, Massachusetts and public support for ministers.

Capt. Weeks his answers to interogatorys on oath ... ca. 1738

Weeks (of Greenland, N.H.) was accused of concealing and embezzling items from his late son's estate. Document is signed: William Parker reg.

[ Order to the sheriff of Bucks County], 1731

An order to the sheriff of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for twelve men to serve on a jury in the trial of John Borrowes, for an unspecified crime. Signed: Jeremiah Langhorne (justice of the peace); dated 14 June 1731. With seal. With this document (originally attached) is the list of jurors chosen to serve at the trial.

Docket book, 1774-1800

Contains list of names of parties in legal disputes arranged chronologically. Little information is given about the nature of disputes.

The royal charter of King Charles the Second to William Penn, esquire, proprietor of the province of Pennsylvania, 1701

A copy of the charter giving William Penn land in the colonies. Also contains Penn's "Frame of the Government of Pennsylvania in America", the laws he established, and the charter of the city of Philadelphia.