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).

Kitāb Fatḥ al-fayyāḍ fī ʻilm al-farāʼiḍ : manuscript, 1911

Title translation : The Endowment of the Generous [i.e. God] regarding the Science of Inheritance.

Hādhā kitāb Sharḥ al-basmalah / li-Shaykh al-Islām Abī Yaḥyá Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, [1629]

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

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.

Rudimentary dictionary of terms used in architecture, civil, architecture, naval, building and construction, early and ecclesiastical art, engineering, civil, engineering, mechanical, fine art, mining, surveying, etc., to which are added explanatory observations on numerous subjects connected with practical art and science.

Issued in four parts.

Legal and political hermeneutics, or principles of interpretation and construction in law and politics, with remarks on precedents and authorities.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient geography, as connected with chronology, and preparatory to the study of ancient history; accompanied with an atlas. Compiled chiefly from D'Anville, Adam, Lavoisne, Malte Brun, and other standard works. To which are added problems on the globes, and rules for the construction of maps. To accompany the modern geography by William C. Woodbridge.

Bound with Woodbridge, W.C. A system of universal geography. Hartford 1835.

Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789: taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice

Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts. (Formerly MS 2141.)

An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General ofthe said island and their under officers, 1763

An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General of the said island and their under officers (leaf 1) ; A state of some matters relative to the office of Provost Marshall, and to the passing of this bill (leaf 9) ; Observations drawn up by Jonathan Blenman Esq. his Majestys Atty. Gen. in Barbadoes ... on the Act as it had been first brought in 1761 (leaf 13) ; and two leaves laid in ; Power of attorney, granted to Christopher Scandrett, signed by Francis Reynolds and his son Thomas (25 April 1766) ; Petition of Francis Reynolds to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (1766).

Functionalism, co-operation, good faith, and the making of the "daily-preventive justice" in contract law theory and practice. A contribution to a rational understanding of good faith and to its future reseasonable developments. Evaluations from

The thoughts and observations contained in this paper were first presented in a preliminary form at the Staff Seminar that I gave at the University of Cape Town (UCT) - Department of Private Law, on Tuesday May 8 2012. The organizers generously offered me a free choice of subject. Such an offer always poses a problem to imaginative people like myself. I finally chose as my subject the role of good faith in contract law theory and practice and then entitled the Seminar “Good Faith & Contracts - Brothers in Arms”. The aim of the talk was to briefly describe what I see behind the doctrine of good faith (and, more broadly, behind the general course of the parties’ behavior before and after the conclusion of an agreement), to then explain the need of its protection and future reasonable developments by challenging the limitations of both traditional and current legal approaches to contract law theory and practice. By adopting a comparative modus investigandi, it emerged that especially in the area of contract law a new law-finding process is emerging in the European continent and it is leading to re-conceive the meta-national legislative interventions by challenging the limits of Hobbes’s Leviathan. As asserted, we ought to not take this process for granted because although there are many forms of social organization, contract is the most pervasive and the law of contract still is the most important vehicle to support and supplement private arrangements. However, the point of departure for theorizing about private law is based on experience. Consequently, despite the growing emphasis on the convergence of national legal systems in Europe, conducting research on private law theory and practice requires that imagination and creativity be matched with prudence. Proficiency has to be aligned with what we have learned from history.

Observations on the courts of law in Nova Scotia, Canada, 1775

Contains a discussion of the organization of the courts in Nova Scotia and recommends changes to allow for greater efficiency and logical administration of cases through the system of justice.

Kitāb al-Itḥāf bi-bayān aḥkām ijārat al-awqāf / li-Khātimat al-Fuqahāʼ al-Muḥaqqiqīn Mawlānā al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī : manuscript, 1876

According to the colophon, (f. 63r), copy completed on 14 Ṣafar 1293 AH [March 10, 1876 AD].

Dürr-i meknûn : manuscript, undated

A treatise on articles of faith written by order of a certain Sinān Beg (f. 1v), composed in the form of questions and answers. Author's name doesn't appear anywhere in this copy. According to the Giresun catalogue entry (Tüyatok, 193), this work was commissioned by Emir ʻĪsá Beg and written in 804 AH [1401 or 02 AD].

Vasiyet etmek hakkında risâle : manuscript, undated

On general obligations of Muslims: what to do and how to make the testament in order to reach Paradise.