Notebook of Obadiah Ayer, 1708-1716

The leather-bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Obadiah Ayer while he was a student at Harvard, and after his graduation in 1710. There is a general index to the included texts at the end of the volume.

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].

Grammatica graeca, 1763

Bound volume containing a handwritten Greek grammar compiled by Joseph Drury beginning in 1763. The last sixteen pages contain a historical poem beginning, “Mason might once assert a Poets Claim. / But he must needs write.” The poem contains references to the “Great Patriot P—,“ the Roman conquest of Gall, Caeser, Versailles, and includes the verses, “How the King doth all his Cooks excel / Besides he longs to kiss his P / Saving your presence Louis keeps a whore.”

Algebra, or universal mathematics: revived 1738 with notes and additions : manuscript, [after 1738]

Instructional book in algebra with exercises.

Usul-i fıkıhtan haşiyeli Mecami ül-hakaik

[Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá Khādimī].

Aruz-i Endelusi şerhi

[ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qayṣarī].

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.

Ishārāt al-uṣūl ilá mafātīḥ al-aḥkām ḥasaba mā yaqtaḍīh al-awqāt wa-al-ayyām

bi-saʻy Mīrzā Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn.

Kitāb Nayl al-arab fī muthallathāt al-ʻArab

li-Ḥasan Quwaydir al-Khalīlī ; tarjamat al-muʼallif Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Fannī.

Nawādir Mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ḥibr al-baḥr al-qudwah al-fahhāmah al-ustādh Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī

Date and imprint taken from colophon.

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.

Kitāb Laṭāʼif akhbār al-uwal fī-man taṣarrafa fī Miṣr min al-duwal / taʼlīf sayyidinā wa-mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAlī al-Isḥāqī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1733

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :Incipit

Kitāb Mufarriḥ al-nafs / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Sharaf al-Dīn Abī Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī al-Futūḥ al-Baghdādī thumma al-Māridīnī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marah : manuscript, [ca. 1530]

The author's name appears as ابن المره in title page (f. 1r) and ابن المراه at the beginning of the book (f. 1v).

Kitāb Tuḥfat al-silāk fī faḍl al-siwāk / min kalām sayyidinā al-Shaykh al-ʻĀrif billāh taʻālá al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad al-Zāhid : manuscript, undated

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

al- Taṣrīḥ bi-ghawāmiḍ al-Talwīḥ : manuscript, undated

Title from f. 1r.