Commonplace book of Clement Weeks

Commonplace book containing a transcription of the "The Book of Harvard," a satirical account of the Butter Rebellion of 1766 followed with supplementary text of "The Arguments in Defence of the Proceedings of the Scholars" and "The Confession that was made after all was done." The above occupies pp. 1-14; pp. 15-18 missing. Pages 19-23 hold excerpts from Edward Young's Conjectures on Original Composition. Pages 24-62 hold excerpts from Saint Augustine's Heresies. Finally pages 62-64 hold an excerpt of Druidical maxims from the introduction of the first volume of Paul Rapin de Thoyras' The History of England (1724).

Theses of 1663

Handwritten document written in Latin and dated August 1663 purported to be the Harvard College Commencement Theses of 1663, but considered by John Noble of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts to be a contemporary parody. Noble notes of the 1663 Theses, that "there seems to be no reason to doubt that this is a genuine, original manuscript of the date which it bears," but describes it as a "blaze of literary and scholastic pyrotechnics" that suggests it was created satirically (John Noble, "Harvard Theses of 1663" in the Publications of the Colonial Society, Volume V: Transactions, April 1898, pages 322-339).

Student notes of Elijah Dunbar, 1792-1793

Three unlined pages with notes written by Harvard undergraduate Elijah Dunbar. The documents consist of two pages of chemistry notes compiled in September 1792 when Dunbar was a junior and an undated, untitled list of theological themes. The chemistry notes include a summary of the discipline and a set of laws regarding the "affinity of composition." The verso of the second page was later annotated: "Borrow- He that discerneth Youth & Beau[ty] Elij. Dunar 2'd 1793. Rec'd David Tappan, Professor of Divinity in the University--Elijah Dunbar, jun." followed by a list of students identified as "Alchemists" in the "Ridiculous Society": Joseph Perkins, Isaac Braman, William Biglow, and Elijah Dunbar. The second document is an untitled list of 27 theological themes beginning "1. Doctrine of the Trinity," and ending "27. Family worship," and may refer to sermon or lecture topics.

" Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government" collection, 1787-1917

This collection contains various manifestations of a humorous poem, most often called "Lines upon the late proceedings of the College Government," written by classmates John Quincy Adams and John Murray Forbes in 1787. Both Adams and Forbes were members of the class of 1787, and the poem recounts events surrounding the pranks and ensuing punishment of two members of the class behind them, Robert Wier and James Prescott. Wier and Prescott had been caught drinking wine and making "riotous noise," and they were publicly reprimanded by Harvard President Joseph Willard and several professors and tutors, including Eliphalet Pearson, Eleazar James, Jonathan Burr, Nathan Read, and Timothy Lindall Jennison. The poem mocks these authority figures, but it spares Samuel Williams, whom it suggests was the only professor to find their antics humorous.

Nawādir Mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ḥibr al-baḥr al-qudwah al-fahhāmah al-ustādh Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī

Date and imprint taken from colophon.

Tuḥfat ahl al-fukāhah fī al-munādamah wa-al-nazāhah

li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad Afandī Saʻd. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Aṭbāq al-dhahab / li-ʻAbd al-Muʼmin al-Maghribī al-Iṣfahānī.

L'observateur au muséum, ou, La critique des tableaux, en vaudeville.

A series of satirical verses on some of the paintings exhibited at the 1802 Salon.

Davy Crockett, American comic legend,

Aids personal and bibliographical: A word on the almanacs: Notes to frontier humor and legend, p. 164-171.

Davy Crockett, American comic legend;

Anecdotes and woocuts selected from the Crockett almanacs (1835-1856) cf. Editors̓ note.

Jewish-American dialect stories on tape /

Offprint: Studies in Biblical and Jewish Folklore; Indiana University Folklore Series. No. 13 (1960).

Grandmother's cook book /

Mode of access: Internet.

The judge.

Vol. 76 (no.1940-1955) incorrectly numbered as v.75.

The bumblepuppy book /

Mode of access: Internet.

Li capitoli faceti editi ed inediti di mess. Agnolo Allori detto il Bronzino, eccellente pittore e poeta fiorentino /

"A solennizzare le faustissime nozze Barbaro-Reali"--Half title page.

Nan nü xin xiao hua /

Mode of access: Internet.