Student essay composed by Edmund Toppan, 1795

Four-page handwritten student essay composed in English by Edmund Toppan as a Harvard undergraduate. The verso of the last page is inscribed "Toppan June 22'd 1795." The essay is titled with a quote from Horace: "Qui non moderabitur irae, Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens." The essay discusses the destructive force of uncontrolled passion and begins, "Last evening, having a very disagreeable head-ache, I early retired to bed."

West & Central Africa, 1873 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Stanford's map of the Guinea Coast, West Africa including the whole course of the Niger, and shewing Ashanti and its surroundings. It was published by E. Stanford in 1873. Scale 1:6,336,000. Covers portions of West and Central Africa.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries and claims, roads, exploration routes, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

al- Taʻrībāt al-shāfiyah li-murīd al-jughrāfiyah

Rifāʻah Badawī Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī.

Kitāb Manāhij al-albāb al-Miṣrīyah fī mabāhij al-ād��b al-ʻaṣrīyah

taʼlīf Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ.

Kitāb Sawāṭiʻ al-anwār fī maʻrifat awqāt al-ṣalawāt wa-al-asḥār / min taʼlīf al-Fāḍil al-Kāmil Mawlawī Muḥammad Ghawth : manuscript, 1873 or 4

According to the colophon (f. 68v), copy completed in 1290 AH [1873 or 74 AD].

Kitāb Maṭālib ahl al-qurbah fī sharḥ duʻāʼ Abī Ḥarbah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-ʻĀlim al-ʻĀmil al-ʻAllāmah al-Muḥaqqiq al-Mudaqqiq al-Fahhāmah al-Sayyid Badr al-D��n Ḥusayn ibn al-Sharīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ahdal : manuscript, 1714

Foliated 1-442. Missing f. 441.