Tuḥfat ahl al-fukāhah fī al-munādamah wa-al-nazāhah

li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad Afand�� Saʻd. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Aṭbāq al-dhahab / li-ʻAbd al-Muʼmin al-Maghribī al-Iṣfahānī.

[ 60 ginānjī ćopḍī]

Pīr Ḥasan Kabīr ad-D��n, Pīr Shams, Pīr Ṣadr ad-D��n, ... [et al.].

Letter from Thomas Welsh to William Tudor,

One letter from Welsh, a Revolutionary War veteran, offering his recollections of Continental Army officer Alexander Scammell.

Letter from W. D. Peck to William Bentley, 1815 March 2

Two leaves containing a two-page handwritten letter from Peck to Bentley identifying and describing the fish species Ophidium as the specimen in a drawing by a young woman described by Peck alternately as Bentley's "daughter" and "Miss C." Bentley had no children, and Peck is presumably referring to Hannah Crowninshield, Bentley's pupil.

Letter from W. D. Peck to William Bentley, 1815 May 17

One leaf containing a one-page handwritten letter from Peck to Bentley briefly commenting on the receipt of a fish specimen.

[Admittatur of William A. Warner], 1811 September 24

Published copy of the 1814 College Laws with the admittatur of undergraduate William A. Warner signed by President John Kirkland on September 24, 1811.

Complaint of Harvard President and Tutors against Nathan Prince, submitted to Governor William Shirley and the Board of Overseers on Jan. 29, 1741

President Edward Holyoke and Tutors Henry Flynt, Joseph Mayhew, and Thomas Marsh accused Prince of "sundry crimes & misdemeanors" and "sundry evil actions," including weakening and undermining the College government, showing contempt towards his fellow Tutors and towards Hollis Professor John Winthrop (who he claimed "knew no more of Philosophy than a Brute"), and making insulting remarks on numerous occasions. Prince was accused of calling others "Fool, Rogue, Rascal, Puppy &c." and of calling Col. Brattle "a Devilish Lyar." He was also accused of "appearing often times, to be what is commonly stil'd the worse for Drink" and of neglecting his duties towards his students.

William Brattle's testimony against Nathan Prince, Nov. 27, 1741

Brattle claims to have heard Prince say, in regard to Henry Flynt, that "he hop'd to have an opportunity to stomp upon his grave" and that fellow Tutor Daniel Rogers was "a Cursed Fellow, Ignoramus, Blockhead, and that he was not fit to be admitted a freshman."

List of books bequeathed by Governor William Dummer and donated by Dr. Sewall, with list of some books saved from fire because checked out, undated

The list of books "sav'd by being borrowed when the Library was burn'd" is organized according to borrower.