Student notebook of James Varney, 1721-1725

The bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Harvard student James Varney in the early 1720s. The texts are written tête-bêche (where both ends of the volume are used to begin writing). The front paste-down endpaper reads 'James Varney his book 1724,' and the rear paste-down endpaper reads 'Joseph Lovett' [AB 1728].

Kitāb Sharḥ al-istiʻārāt / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Mallawī : manuscript, 1850

Author's own abridgement of his longer work "ʻIqd al-durar al-bahīyah fī sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah".

Description of the domains of Egypt : manuscript, undated

Title supplied by cataloger.

The life of Rev. David Brainerd, chiefly extracted from his diary. By President Edwards. Somewhat abridged. Embracing, in the chronological order, Brainerd's public journal of the most successful year of his missionary labors.

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Hādhihi Taqrīrāt rāʼiqah wa-taḥqīqāt fāʼiqah

nammaqahā Muḥammad al-Azharī najl al-Ḥasan al-ʻAdawī al-Ḥamzāwī. Washshaḥa bihā ḥawāshī Muḥammad al-Ḥifnī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah al-ʻAḍudīyah / li-Abī al-Qāsim al-Samarqandī wa-bi-hāmishihā al-ḥawāshī al-madhkūrah maʻa al-sharḥ al-madhkūr.

al- Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-khāmis min kitāb al-Intiṣār li-wāsiṭat ʻiqd al-amṣār

taʼlīf Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aydamur al-ʻAlāʼī al-shahīr bi-Ibn Duqmāq.

Ḥāshiyah al-jadīdah ʻalá Sharḥ ʻIṣām al-Farīdah

[Aḥmad Khalīl al-Fawzī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Filibawī].

Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dāyirah al-ālah al-maʻrūfah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʼī al-Muwaqqit bi-Jāmiʻ al-Muʼayyad : manuscript, 1673

Unbound.

Hādhā mukhtaṣar kitāb Qaṭf al-azhār min al-Khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār, mukhtaṣar al-Khiṭaṭ lil-Maqrīzī / lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... Sibṭ Āl al-Ṣiddīq Mawlānā Abū al-Surūr al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, from 17 to 25 lines per page, in black ink, framed within double red lines.

Hādhā kitāb Ḥusn al-muḥāḍarah fī akhbār Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah / lil-Imām al-Mujtahid al-Ḥafīẓ Jalāl al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Asyūṭī : manuscript, 1844

Vol. 1 of a multi-volume set.

Rawḍ al-akhyār al-muntakhab min Rabīʻ al-abrār : manuscript, 1576

Title from f. 2r.

Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osman : manuscript, undated

Popular history that starts with stories of the prophets (ff. 5r-17v) the offers anecdotes from the life of Prophet Muḥammad (ff. 17v-20v) and the four rightly guided caliphs and narrates history of Islamic dynasties (ff. 20v-35v). History of Ottoman family starts with Ertuġrıl and ends with at Süleymān Qānūnī (ff. 35v-60v). Enumerates sultan's campaigns, charitable foundations they established, and noteworthy contemporary scholars and religious personalities.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, 1443-1473

1. Kitāb Luqṭat al-ʻajlān fī al-uṣūl / al-Zarkashī, 878 [1473] (ff. 1r-10v) -- 2. Sharḥ Qaṣīdat Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ (ff. 11r-20v) -- 3. Manẓūmah fī al-kitābah wa-al-tajwīd ṭarīqahu / li-Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Sinjārī (ff. 21r-25v) -- 4. Hādūr / Ibn Zuqqāʻah, 877 [1472-3] (ff. 26r-30v) -- 5. al-Waraqāt / Imām al-Ḥaramayn (ff. 31r-34r) -- 6. Sharḥ Yaqūlu al-ʻabd / lil-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn, 846 [1443] (ff. 37r-61r) -- 7. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Waraqāt / Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī (ff. 62r-75v) -- 8. An untitled incomplete work on logic (ff. 76r-127v).

Rûz-nâme : manuscript, [1438]

Poetry on astrological significance of each day depending on positions of stars and times of day when various stars exert their influence. Arranged according to days and hours of appearance of each star.

al- Juzʼ al-thālith wa-al-arbaʻūn min Sharḥ Kitāb Sībawayh / taʼlīf al-Qāḍī Abī al-Saʻīd al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī : manuscript, [ca. 979]

Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.