Ijāzat Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār li-Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān : manuscript, [ca. 1780-1800]

An ijāzah issued by Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār to his student Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān. The student's name is mentioned on fol. 1v; the master's name on fol. 6r. In the ijāzah al-ʻAṭṭār traces his authority back to al-Qasṭallānī's al-Mawāhib al-ladunnīyah, then to al-Shāfiʻī, and then gives his isnād of a musalsal ḥadīth.

Kitāb Sharḥ Ibn Qāsim al-ʻAbbādī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Waraqāt lil-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī : manuscript, 1649

According to the colophon (f. 60r), copy completed on 16 Rajab 1059 AH [July, 25, 1649 AD].

Kitāb Ghāyat al-maʼmūl fī sharḥ Waraqāt al-uṣūl / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Ḥibr al-Baḥr al-Fahhāmah Shaykh Mashāyikh al-Islām Abī al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Ramlī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1613

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. First three leaves and last leaf framed within a double red line.

Tartīb Majmūʻ al-Kallāʼī : manuscript, 1641

Written in one column, 27 lines per page, in black and red.

Hādhā Sharḥ al-Waraqāt fī al-uṣūl / lil-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1553

Written in on column, 24 or 25 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Maslak al-sadād ilá masʼalat khalq afʻāl al-ʻibād / taḥrīr ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī thumma al-Madanī : manuscript, 1684

Title from f. 1r.

Imdād dhawī al-istiʻdād li-sulūk maslak al-sadād / taḥrīr ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan ibn Shihāb al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Kūrānī al-Shahrazūrī al-Shahrānī al-Madanī : manuscript, 1685

Title from f. 26r.

Kitāb Fatḥ al-jawād bi-sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻImād / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah shaykhinā wa-mawlānā Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Shihāb Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī : manuscript, 1542

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بعث محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم رحمة للعالمين ... :Incipit

Kitāb Ghāyat al-ghawr fī dirāyat al-dawr / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Zāhid Rukn al-Dīn Imām al-aʼimmah Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazzālī : manuscript, undated

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

Hādhihi al-Fatāwá lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khalīlī al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1735 or 6

Dated 1148 [1735-6] (f. 39r).

Kitāb muqaddimah ukhrá fī al-ṭalāq : manuscript, undated

Bound with: Ghāyat al-ghawr fī dirāyat al-dawr (ff. 1r-7r).

Sharḥ al-Waraqāt / lil-Imām al-Maḥallī : manuscript, 1649

Dated 16 Rajab 1059 [July 26, 1649].

Zubdat al-mukhtaṣarāt fī sharḥ al-Waraqāt : manuscript, 1553

Copy completed on 26 Jumādá al-ūlá 960 [May 9, 1553] (f. 37v).

Hādhā Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah / lil-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1697

Copy completed 13 Ramaḍān 1108 [April 5, 1697] in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Najāḥī al-Shāfiʻī.

Declaration signed by Harvard students to not speak in the vernacular for one year, 1712 August 23

The declaration, handwritten in Latin and signed by members of the junior and sophomore classes (Harvard Classes of 1714 and 1715), promises that the undersigned will not use the vernacular but instead "whenever, at meals, at banquets,...in our rooms, in all our gatherings, wherever and whenever" will speak in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew through the next May. Additional Latin text appears on both the front and back of the document. The original is accompanied by a typed transcription and two partial handwritten translations. Note at top of original: "Script. Leonardo Dowding, Composit. a Tho. Foxcroft."