[Admittatur of Richard Waldron (Harvard AB 1738)], 1735

Notebook pages preserved in a modern hardcover binding, containing a handwritten copy of the 1692 College laws copied in English by Harvard undergraduate Richard Waldron and signed by President Benjamin Wadsworth, Fellow Henry Flynt, and Tutor Daniel Rogers on April 22, 1735. The "College Customs" are copied onto the last pages of the notebook.

The Hebrew Grammar Account, [1735]

A half-page handwritten statement compiled by Judah Monis for the Harvard Corporation listing costs between July 2, 1734 and February 17, 1734 related to the printing of the Hebrew Grammar.

Overseers meeting at Boston, 1735 June 6

One-page handwritten notes from a June 5, 1735 Board of Overseer meeting, in President Wadsworth's hand, listing "hints" about the Corporation's actions towards the publication of the Hebrew Grammar.

Instructions for printing the Hebrew Grammar, [ca. 1735]

A one-page handwritten list of instructions, in President Benjamin Wadsworth's hand, for printing, distributing, and collecting revenue on the Hebrew Grammar.

Letter from Judah Monis to the Harvard Corporation, 1735 October 3

Two folio-sized leaves containing an October 3, 1735 letter from Judah Monis to the Harvard Corporation requesting an increased "reward" for the Hebrew Grammar and an increased salary. The document includes a financial outline of a "Scheme for 30 Years."

Notes of cases before colonial New Jersey courts, 1735-1755

Contains notes of cases before several New Jersey courts especially the New Jersey Supreme Court. Possibly compiled by Coxe.

Short nomenclator or vocabular in English and Hebrew: composed alphabetically for the use and benefit of my pupils in particular and for the advantage of those who are desirous to obtain the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue in general, which may be that great help to understand not only ye sacred oracles in their original, but even any Jewish author (so far as concern owns) as also it may give great insight in ye tongue to those, as to compose it, a work altogether new, [ca. 1735]

Headed on the first page with the words "Nomenclatura hebraica," this handwritten volume is a vocabulary with the Hebrew word in the left column, and the English translation on the right. While the book is arranged in sections by letter, individual entries do not appear in strict alphabetical order. The small vocabulary varies greatly and includes entries like enigma, excommunication, and martyr, as well as cucumber and maggot. There are translations of the astrological signs at the end of the volume. Poem written at the bottom of the last page in different hand: "Women when good the best of saints/ that bright seraphick lovely/ she, who nothing of an angel/ wants but truth & immortality./ Verse 2: Who silken limbs & charming/ face. Keeps nature warm."

Manual of navigation : manuscript, [1697?]

Consists of lessons on various computations (ff. 1-4), geometry (5-10), and navigation (11-74), mostly in the form of problems and solutions.

Oratio salutatoria in comitiis academicis habita Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum. Iulii nonarum, 1697

This hardcover modern binding contains a twenty-page manuscript copy of the salutatory address given by Elisha Cooke at the 1697 Harvard College Commencement. The text includes edits and struck-through words. A one-page copy of the first page of the oration signed by Thomas Banister and William Phips is at the end of the volume.

Student notebook of Marston Cabot, ca. 1720-1735

This leather-bound volume contains excerpts copied by Marston Cabot from books he read while he was a student at Harvard in 1723. The volume includes extracts from Charles Morton's 1687 Compendium Physicae (titled "of Phisicks" by Cabot), Dr. Adriani Heereboord (Adrianus Heereboord), Philosophia Naturalis and Johanne-Henrico Alstedio’s (John Henry Alsted) geometry text Compendium Geometria. The excerpts from Compendium Geometria include both figures and text, primarily in Latin with some Greek. The volume also includes “Theses quaedam extractae potissimum ex Enchiridio Metaphysico Domini Johannis Clerici" a précis of Jean Le Clerc's Ontologia et Pneumatologia made by Jonathan Remington, a Harvard Tutor from 1703 to 1711, to serve in place of printed textbooks. The names Jonathan Jackson and Edward Jackson are written on the inside cover, suggesting the book may have been handed down to Edward Jackson (Class of 1726) and his son Jonathan Jackson (Class of 1761). The text of the volume is in Marston Cabot's hand.