A prayer to Christ, undated

Short handwritten poem beginning, "Suffer me not Oh Christ to be..."

Schachzabelbuch : manuscript, [ca. 1390]-1408

Schachzabelbuch (ff. 1-87r; incomplete at the beginning) -- Heil- und Segenssprüche (87r-88v) -- Tageszeiten (89r-144v) -- Kalender (145r-159v) -- Heil- und Segenssprüche (160r-v).

Description of a College Chamber (manuscript copy), ca. 1744

This humorous, rhyming poem appears to have been co-authored by Thomas Handcock of Massachusetts and Richard Waterman of Warwick, Rhode Island. The document is also signed by Catharine Waterman. Neither of the authors attended Harvard College, and the circumstances of this poem's creation are not known. The poem suggests that they composed the poem while visiting - uninvited - the room of "honest Bob." The poem describes the contents of this college chamber, including the following items: an oak table with a broken leg; paper, a pen, and sand for writing; books, including "Scotch songs," philosophy, Euclid, a book of prayer, Tillotson, and French romances; pipes and tobacco; mugs; a broken violin; copperplate and mezzotint prints; a cat; clothes; two globes; a pair of bellows; a broom; a chamber pot; a candle in a bottle; tea; cups and saucers; a letter to Chloe, to whom the room's inhabitant apparently owed money; a powder horn; a fishing net; a rusty gun; a battledore; a shuttlecock; a cannister; a pair of shoes; and a coffee mill. The poem references events related to the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748); British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon's siege of Portobello (in present-day Panama) in 1739; the "Rushian War" (perhaps the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743); and the War of Jenkins' Ear (the cat in the college chamber, like British Captain Robert Jenkins, has lost an ear).

Student mathematical textbook of James Freeman, 1774

Manuscript volume containing portions of text copied from Nicholas Saunderson’s Elements of algebra, Nicholas Hammond’s The elements of algebra, and John Ward’s The young mathematician’s guide. The volume is divided into two main parts: the first is titled Concerning the parts of Arithmetick (p. 1-98) and the second, The elements of Algebra, extracted from Hammond, Ward & Saunderson (p. 99-259).

Notebook of John Allen, 1772

Paper-covered notebook containing handwritten poems and verse by Harvard graduate John Allen. Some of the poems refer to Allen’s illnesses in October 1772. The notebook also contains a short list titled “The Gentleman that I wrote diplomas for," with a list of sixteen individuals who received degrees from Harvard. The inside cover includes the inscription: “John Allen – November 4, 1772. Poetic Composition.” “Dr. T. C. Gilman” is stamped on cover.

Sermons : manuscript, [17--]

Sermons chiefly concern the Lord's Prayer.

Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Hādhihi Risālah fī taḥqīq ṣalāt al-wusṭá / min taʼlīf shaykhinā al-ʻālim al-muḥaqqiq wa-al-fāḍil al-mudaqqiq Imām al-ʻulamāʼ Qāḍī al-Mulk Mawlawī Ṣibghat Allāh : manuscript, 1862

Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black.

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].

Risālah dar bayān-i shurūṭ-i iqtidā / min taʼlīf janāb Imām al-ʻulamā Qāḍī al-Mulk Bahādur : manuscript, 1862

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb Shurūṭ al-imāmah / lil-Shaykh al-Imām Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, 23-24 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Kitāb Ghāyat al-maghnam fī al-ism al-aʻẓam / lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-Rabbānī ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Fattūḥ ibn al-Durayhim : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اشرف نور الله وظهر كلام الله ولمب امر الله وبعد حلم الله ... :Incipit

Kitāb Sihām al-iṣābah fī al-daʻawāt al-mujābah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1512

Copy completed on 8 Rajab 918 [September 19, 1512] in the hand of Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī.

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-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn al-Sharīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ahdal : manuscript, 1714

Foliated 1-442. Missing f. 441.