Notebook of John Allen, 1772

Paper-covered notebook containing handwritten poems and verse by Harvard graduate John Allen. Some of the poems refer to Allen’s illnesses in October 1772. The notebook also contains a short list titled “The Gentleman that I wrote diplomas for," with a list of sixteen individuals who received degrees from Harvard. The inside cover includes the inscription: “John Allen – November 4, 1772. Poetic Composition.” “Dr. T. C. Gilman” is stamped on cover.

Sermons : manuscript, [17--]

Sermons chiefly concern the Lord's Prayer.

Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Hādhihi Risālah fī taḥqīq ṣalāt al-wusṭá / min taʼlīf shaykhinā al-ʻālim al-muḥaqqiq wa-al-fāḍil al-mudaqqiq Imām al-ʻulamāʼ Qāḍī al-Mulk Mawlawī Ṣibghat Allāh : manuscript, 1862

Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black.

Kitāb Sawāṭiʻ al-anwār fī maʻrifat awqāt al-ṣalawāt wa-al-asḥār / min taʼlīf al-Fāḍil al-Kāmil Mawlawī Muḥammad Ghawth : manuscript, 1873 or 4

According to the colophon (f. 68v), copy completed in 1290 AH [1873 or 74 AD].

Risālah dar bayān-i shurūṭ-i iqtidā / min taʼlīf janāb Imām al-ʻulamā Qāḍī al-Mulk Bahādur : manuscript, 1862

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb Shurūṭ al-imāmah / lil-Shaykh al-Imām Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, 23-24 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Kitāb Ghāyat al-maghnam fī al-ism al-aʻẓam / lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-Rabbānī ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Fattūḥ ibn al-Durayhim : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اشرف نور الله وظهر كلام الله ولمب امر الله وبعد حلم الله ... :Incipit

Kitāb Sihām al-iṣābah fī al-daʻawāt al-mujābah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1512

Copy completed on 8 Rajab 918 [September 19, 1512] in the hand of Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Jamāl al-Anṣārī.

Kitāb Maṭālib ahl al-qurbah fī sharḥ duʻāʼ Abī Ḥarbah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-ʻĀlim al-ʻĀmil al-ʻAllāmah al-Muḥaqqiq al-Mudaqqiq al-Fahhāmah al-Sayyid Badr al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn al-Sharīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ahdal : manuscript, 1714

Foliated 1-442. Missing f. 441.

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.

Hādhihi al-adʻiyah manqūlah min kalām Abī al-Ḥasan al-Ḥasanī al-Shādhilī : manuscript, [ca. 1360]

Paper. 15.7 x 11.4 cm. (13.3 x 9.3 cm.).

Ḥizb al-baḥr / min taʼlīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-walī al-ʻārif al-quṭb al-jāmiʻ al-wārith Abī al-Ḥasan al-Ḥasanī al-Shādhilī : manuscript, [ca. 1360]

Paper. 15.7 x 11.4 cm. (13.3 x 9.3 cm.).

Suʼāl wārid ʻalá al-Shaykh al-Ahdal wa-al-jawāb ʻanhu : manuscript, [ca. 1918]

Bound with: Risālah / ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Nūr.

Salāt-i Masʻūdī : manuscript, 1298-1299 [i.e. 1881-1882]

A manuscript treatise on prayer, ablution, alms, fasting, divorce, etc. The first volume opens with a chapter on "Tawḥīd", i.e. Islamic theology. This is followed by a chapter on Abū Ḥanīfah and his school of law.