Hādhihi Risālah fī al-ijāzah / lil-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Awḥad al-Mutqin Abū al-Muẓaffar Manṣūr ibn Salīm al-Hamadānī al-Iskandarī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1865 or 6

Cream laid paper.

Dekâiku'l-hakâik : manuscript, undated

A work on subtleties of Persian vocabulary. Discusses nuances of and differences in meaning between homographs or near-homographs and words derived from similar stems. Pronunciations, etymologies, differences in usage discussed. Poems used as examples.

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.

Sharḥ Kanz al-mughrimīn / lil-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh Ibn Sabʻīn : manuscript, 1593

Title from f. 15r.

Sharḥ al-Ḥamāsah : manuscript, undated

Volume 1 of a two-volume set.

Student essay composed by Curtis Guild, 1795

Two-page handwritten essay written in English by Curtis Guild when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The essay is titled with a quote in Latin from Virgil, "Omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis," that translates as, “All the fond Parent’s Care centers in Ascanio.” The essay begins, “The machinery of man is wonderful…” and discusses parental affection. The essay is signed “C Guild” and dated May 7, 1795.

Student essay composed by Edmund Toppan, 1795

Four-page handwritten student essay composed in English by Edmund Toppan as a Harvard undergraduate. The verso of the last page is inscribed "Toppan June 22'd 1795." The essay is titled with a quote from Horace: "Qui non moderabitur irae, Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens." The essay discusses the destructive force of uncontrolled passion and begins, "Last evening, having a very disagreeable head-ache, I early retired to bed."

Student poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings, 1799 September 16

Handwritten poem composed by Jacob Abbot Cummings when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The rhyming poem celebrates morning (as a metaphor for life) and describes the farmer, industrious milk maid, and market man. It begins, “Loud speaks the clarion of approaching day..." The poem is labeled "16 September 1799 Cummings" and is headed with a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost: "Sweet in the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with song of earliest bird."

Kitab al-amthal =: seu proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriæ duæ : ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectæ & explicatæ

cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis Iosephi Scaligeri et Thomæ Erpenii.

Ahlâk-ı alâ'î : manuscript, undated

A work on morals, completed on 25 Safer 973 AH [21 Sept. 1565 AD], while the author was serving as judge in Damascus. First section is on personnal morals, second on family morals and third on political morals and art of governance.

Kitāb al-Ḥujjah fī sariqāt ibn Ḥijjah / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ... Abī ʻAbd Allāh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Nawājī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, undated

Missing leaves at the end.

Mevâhibü'l-hallâk fî merâtibi'l-ahlâk : manuscript, undated

Work on ethics accompanied by exemplary anecdotes from Islamic history.

Schedule of two thousand American historical nuggets taken : from the Stevens diggings in September 1870 and set down in chronological order of printing from 1490 to 1800 [i.e. 1776] ; described and recommended as a supplement to any printed Bibliotheca Americana /

A list of about 1400 titles not found in John Carter Brown's Bibliotheca Americana.

Short nomenclator or vocabular in English and Hebrew: composed alphabetically for the use and benefit of my pupils in particular and for the advantage of those who are desirous to obtain the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue in general, which may be that great help to understand not only ye sacred oracles in their original, but even any Jewish author (so far as concern owns) as also it may give great insight in ye tongue to those, as to compose it, a work altogether new, [ca. 1735]

Headed on the first page with the words "Nomenclatura hebraica," this handwritten volume is a vocabulary with the Hebrew word in the left column, and the English translation on the right. While the book is arranged in sections by letter, individual entries do not appear in strict alphabetical order. The small vocabulary varies greatly and includes entries like enigma, excommunication, and martyr, as well as cucumber and maggot. There are translations of the astrological signs at the end of the volume. Poem written at the bottom of the last page in different hand: "Women when good the best of saints/ that bright seraphick lovely/ she, who nothing of an angel/ wants but truth & immortality./ Verse 2: Who silken limbs & charming/ face. Keeps nature warm."

The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestates: in Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript

with a verbal translation and explanatory notes by William Jones.