Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1848-1857

1. Kitāb Maqṣad al-asná fī dhikr mā yataʻallaq bi-al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná / Aḥmad Zarrūq, 1267 AH [1850 or 51 AD] (ff. 1r-21v) -- 2. Sharḥ sayyid al-istighfār / ʻAlī Mahāyimī, 1265 AH [1848 or 49 AD] (ff. 25r-32v) -- 3. Hādhā al-suʼāl nuqila min asʼilah suʼila ʻanhā ... Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Kurdī al-Shāmī al-Madanī (ff. 33r-39r) -- 4. Hādhā fawāyid nafīsah ... wa-mimmā suʼila ʻanhu ... al-Shaykh Saʻīd Sunbul al-Makkī, 1273 AH [1856 or 57 AD] (ff. 39r-51r) -- 5. Mā qawl al-sādah al-Ḥanafīyah fī ʻaṣīr qaṣab al-sukkar / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Suyūṭī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baḥrāwī al-Ḥanafī, Muḥammad al-Rāfiʻī al-Ḥanafī (ff. 51v-55r).

Letter from George Richards Minot to Daniel Kilham, 1777 December 1

Three-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate George Richards Minot to his friend and Harvard graduate Daniel Kilham, dated December 1, 1777. The letter describes the discipline inflicted upon Minot and seven of his classmates by the Harvard government following a “Thanksgiving frolic,” and the retributions carried out by the students against a Tutor who recommended harsh measures for the accused students. The Early Faculty minutes for 1777 (UAIII 5.5, Volume 4, pages 75-76) describes the students’ crime as “making riotous & tumultuous noises in the Hall…committed in Presence of a number foreigners, & and on a day appointed by Authority for public Thanksgiving.”