The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestates: in Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript

with a verbal translation and explanatory notes by William Jones.

Poems copied by James Diman, ca. 1730-1733

Small pamphlet-sized notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of three poems copied by James Diman, likely in the early 1730s. The notebook contains "The Catholic Remedy. to ye Tune of To all you Ladies, not at land &c.," "Father Ab--y's Will. Col. Sweeper Camb: Dec. 1731," and "The Poet's Lamentation for ye Loss of his cat, w'ch he used to call his Muse" copied from the London Magazine, November 1733. The "Catholic Remedy" begins "You Peope who desire to mend / your Desperate Estate..." and includes the note, "Made upon A--D--'s goving over to take orders. The note refers to the voyage of Addington Davenport (Harvard AB 1719) to England join the priesthood of the Church of England in 1730. "Father Ab--y's Will" begins "To my dear Wife, / My joy and Life..." and was a humorous poem published in 1731 after the death of Harvard College Sweeper Matthew Abdy, and attributed to Jonathan Seccombe (Harvard AB 1728). The "Poet's Lamentation" begins "Oppress'd with Grief, in heavy strains I mourn..." and was written by Joseph Green (Harvard AB 1726) as a parody of a psalm composed by Mather Byles (Harvard AB 1725). Pages 10-12, holding part of "Father Ab--y's Will" are missing, and pages 13-15 are no longer attached to the item.

Account book of the executors of the Henry Flynt estate, 1760-1767

The volume contains acknowledgements of the disbursements of Harvard Tutor Henry Flynt's estate written in the hands of the respective beneficiaries. The entries begin on February 27, 1760 following Flynt's death on February 13, 1760, and continue through May 9, 1767. Each receipt includes the date, name of the executors, description of the property, beneficiary's name, and signature. The beneficiaries include the wife of Sol. Davy, Dorothy Jackson, Edmund Quincy, J. Henry Quincy, Esther and Stephen Richard (received by attorney Nicholas Boylston), Dorothy Skinner (also received for her by her husband Richard Skinner), John Wendell, Edmund Wendell, Katherine Wendell, and Oliver Wendell, as well as Harvard College (received by Harvard Treasurer Thomas Hubbard), and the Deacons of the First Church of Cambridge. The volume also includes a loose document titled "Account from Messrs Edmund & Josiah Quincy Settled & Ballanced March 31, 1749."

al- Fatāwá al-Sirājīyah

[ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī].

Ahkam-i mer'iye

[katabahu al-faqīr Aḥmad ʻĀrif Ḥikmat ibn Ibrāhīm ʻIṣmat al-Ḥusaynī].

ʻUmdat al-rāyiḍ fi fann al-farāyiḍ / min taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-Amjad Ḥaḍrat Qāḍī al-Mulk : manuscript, 1855 or 56

According to the colophon (f. 25v), copy completed in 1272 AH [1855 or 56 AD].

Hukum Mŭm-bhagi pusaka : manuscript, 1832

According to the colophons (ff. 15r and 25r), copy completed on 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1247 AH [April 22, 1832 AD] or on 25 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1247 AH [April 25, 1832 AD].

Kitāb Jawāhir al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, undated

Title supplied by cataloger.

Tartīb Majmūʻ al-Kallāʼī : manuscript, 1641

Written in one column, 27 lines per page, in black and red.

Kitāb Sharḥ al-Sirājīyah fī ʻilm al-farāyiḍ / lil-ʻAllāmah Ḥaydar : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 28 or 29 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Comments in the margins.

al- Farāʼiḍ al-Sirājīyah : manuscript, 1439

Written in one column, 5 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Text surrounded by comments in the margins.

Masāʼil al-mutashābihah min masāʾil al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, [1439]

Reading note dated Ṣafar 852 [April 5-14, 1448].

Tashīl al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1747

Copy completed in Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1160 [1747].

Hādhā Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah / lil-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1697

Copy completed 13 Ramaḍān 1108 [April 5, 1697] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Najāḥī al-Shāfiʻī.

Risālah fī tafṣīl masāʼil dhawī al-arḥām : manuscript, [1747]

Dated 1106 [1694-5] but it appears to be a mistake, the correct date should be 1160 [1747].