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).

Hādhā Sharḥ al-Waraqāt fī al-uṣūl / lil-Imām al-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1553

Written in on column, 24 or 25 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

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-musammāh bi-Yāqūtat al-ʻilm / lil-Shaykh Abī Isḥāq al-Tūnisī : manuscript, [1629]

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

Hādhā kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-sharīʻah wa-miftāḥ al-ḥaqīqah / min taṣānīf al-Shaqīq al-Balkhī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 11 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red lines.

[ Fetâvâ] : manuscript, 1132 [ca. 1720 C.E.]

A typical fatwa collection covering almost all aspects of law: prayers, ablution, alms, fasting, divorce, capital punishment, etc.

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.

Bristol County, Massachusetts, 1858 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the county of Bristol, Massachusetts, the details from actual surveys under the direction of Henry F. Walling, sup't of the state map. It was published by John L. Smith & Co in 1858. Scale 1:47,520. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and county boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages, and an inset geological map of county. It includes also illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances. This map represents county boundaries as of 1858, thus it includes portions of East Providence and Pawtucket, now in Rhode Island and does not include portions of Fall River and Westport, Massachusetts, formerly in Rhode Island. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Justice of the peace docket books, 1769-1808

A collection of notebooks in which Hubbard recorded both legal and personal transactions in detail, including: writs, arrests, wills, boundary disputes, damages awarded in court cases over which he presided, various payments and expenses, etc. Also included are three notebooks kept by his nephew James Hubbard, who inherited Joshua Hubbard's farm; these primarily record the sale of cider and vinegar from his farm, costs of hired labor, and bank loans.

Motion for change of venue in the case of the Inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay Colony v. Charles Paxton, October 1761

A motion that the case not be tried in Suffolk County, on the grounds that the judges and jurors were residents of the colony. Pratt was attorney to Paxton, an attorney and commissioner of customs, who had incurred a debt to the Colony.

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.)

Precedents book of Massachusetts law, 1775

A commonplace book kept by Parsons outling various legal issues including getting a negro with child, slander, deceit, bills of exchange, debt,assault and battery, quantum meruit by a physician, ejectment, covenant, and liberty of the yard. Many of these topics include also forms of declaration.

Docket books and fee book, 1791-1806

Consists of 7 notebooks and 1 account book. Notebooks list cases heard before the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex and Worcester counties and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (March 1794-Sept. 1797; Sept. 1800-March 1802; June 1805-September 1806) and before the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough and Merrimack counties (March 1798-March 1805). The account book includes cases from Sept. 1791-July 1797.