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.

Popery a complex falsehood: or an attempt to clear and evidence, that it is so, in a lecture had at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, on May 10th, 1769

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 30-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Samuel Mather on May 10, 1769 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Thess. 11:11, 12. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The item has unattached pages and is in fragile condition. The lecture was never published.

Hādhihi nubdhah laṭīfah fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Dāwūd al-Baghdādī

1. Hādhihi nubdhah laṭīfah fī tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Dāwūd al-Baghdādī / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Mūsawī -- 2. Minḥah al-wahbīyah fī radd al-Wahhābīyah / Dāwūd al-Baghdādī al-Mūsawī -- 3. Ashadd al-jihād fī ibṭāl daʻwá al-ijtihād / Dāwūd al-Baghdādī al-Mūsawī.

al-R add al-mubīn ʻalá jahalat al-mutaṣawwifīn

li-Wafā ibn Muḥammad Wafā al-Qūnī.

Risālah wa-tusammá al-Sabīʻīyah bi-ibṭāl al-diyānah al-Yahūdīyah / lil-ḥibr al-ʻaẓīm Isrāʼīl ibn Shamūyil al-Ūrshalīmī manuscript, undated

20.8 x 12.5 cm. (16.5 x 7 cm.).

Hikayat Si Miskin : manuscript, 1836

Writen in one column, 13 lines per page, in black and red.