Summons and recognizance for Hugh Woodcock, 1730

An early colonial summons and recognizance for Hugh Woodcock, who was charged with adultery. John Shoreland was surety for Woodcock's appearance in court. Woodcock failed to appear, and Shoreland failed to produce him, so the Court declared a default and ordered Shoreland's arrest and detention.

Charles Town, South Carolina: with a chart of the bars & harbour

by R. Cowley.

al- Fatāwá al-Sirājīyah

[ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Ūshī].

Insularum Indiae Orientalis: nova descriptio

Ioannis Ianssonius.

A generall mapp of the Coast of Barbarie, where in are the Kingdoms, and Estates of Morocco, Fez, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli: also the Kingdoms, Estates and Deserts of Barca, Egipt, Libya, Biledulgerid, Segelmesse and Darha: with the circumjacent counteries

by Mounsieur Sanson ; rendred into English and illustrated by Richard Blome ; Francis Lamb Sculpit.

Netâicü'l-fünûn / li-Nev'î Efendi : manuscript, undated

Concise encyclopedia on twelve sciences: 1. history; 2. philosophy; 3. astronomy; 4. theology; 5. principles of law; 6. controverted points; 7. exegesis; 8. mysticism; 9. interpretation of dreams; 10. magic, charm, and medecine; 11. agriculture; 12. astrology and divination.

[ Book of predictions] : manuscript, 1785-1812

Book of yearly predictions about the sultan, his family, ministers, grand mufti, etc. Records for years 1199-1227 AH [1785-1812 AD]. Year run from nevrūz to nevrūz (beginning of spring). Predictions concern political affairs and state of health of various individuals. Predictions about weather conditions and the eclipses also included. Separate section at end of each year's entry breaks down predictions into months. Manuscript apparently the author's working copy and probably the sole copy.

Kitāb Madārik al-aḥkām fī sharḥ Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black and red.

Kitāb Nihāyat al-marām : manuscript, 1600

According to colophon (f. 143r), copy completed in the hand of al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Khurāsānī towards the end of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1008 AH [July 1600 AD].

Kitāb al-Hidāyah : manuscript, 1259

Written in one column, from 25 to 30 lines per page, in black ink.

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.

Hādhā al-kitāb min Tafsīr al-kalām al-qadīm al-dāʼim / taʼlīf ʻallāmat zamānih al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Jamāl al-Dīn Abī al-Ghanāʼim al-Qāshānī : manuscript, 1551

Written in one column, 25 lines per page, in black and red.

Ḥāshiyat Qarah Kamāl ʻalá Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Tartīb Majmūʻ al-Kallāʼī : manuscript, 1641

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

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1694-1716

A collection of more than 80 short treatises by various authors on various topics as well as numerous excerpts from different sources.