Notes on cases in Great Barrington, 1783

Athead of first page "Great Barrington Oct. term 1783". Notes on various cases, including cases of trespass, assault and battery, debt, and attempt to prevent the service of a warrant.

Records of cases before the Mayor's Court of Albany, 1786-1796

Contains a summary of cases before the court beginning with the litigants and the damages sought, the legal action, names of counsel, actions taken, and the final disposition of the case. Most actions taken relate to debt, assault and battery, and slander and libel. At the back of the manuscript are "an account of law books by me purchased in the year 1784 & 1785" [p. 120], and"a list miscellanious books bought in the year 1784 & 1785" [p. 132].

Lawyer's commonplace book, 1774-1783

Contains entries on a variety of topics arranged alphabetically and compiled by several individuals. Includes an index at the end.

Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787

Nathaniel Freeman made entries in this commonplace book between 1786 and 1787, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The book includes the notes Freeman took during three of Hollis Professor Samuel Williams' "Course of Experimental Lectures," and cover Williams' lectures on "The Nature & Properties of Matter," "Attraction & Repulsion," and "The Nature, Kind, & Affections [?] of Motion." These notes also include one diagram. The book also includes forensic compositions on the subjects of capital punishment, the probability of "the immortality of the soul," and "whether there be any disinterested benevolence." It also includes a poem Freeman composed for his uncle, Edmund Freeman; an anecdote about Philojocus and Gripus; an essay called "Character"; a draft of a letter to the Harvard Corporation requesting that, in light of the public debt, the Commencement ceremonies be held privately to lower expenses and exhibit the merits of economy; and an "epistle" to his father, requesting money. This epistle begins: "Most honored sire, / Thy son, poor Nat, in humble strains, / Impell'd by want, thy generous bounty claims."

Oratio salutatoria et oratio valedictoria, ca. 1763

Undated and unattributed handwritten Latin salutatory and valedictory orations composed for the Harvard College Commencement. A modern note with the materials suggests Nathaniel Sparhawk (Harvard AB 1765) as the author, but the author was more likely Joseph Hooper (Harvard AB 1763), who delivered the orations for the 1763 Harvard Commencement. While the documents are undated, textual clues include mention of the command of George III in recent war against France and Spain, suggesting the speech was written soon after the Treaty of Paris which was signed in February 1763 to end the Seven Years' War. The speech also celebrates Harvard Tutor William Kneeland, who resigned from his position in July 1763, and mentions the illness of Professor Edward Wigglesworth (who died before the 1765 Commencement). The text also mentions Professor John Winthrop and Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard.

Hādhā kitāb Miṣbāḥ al-uns fī sharḥ Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd

[sharḥ Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-ʻUṭhmānī (al-Fanārī) ; taṣḥīḥ Mīrzā Ḥāshim ibn Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Kīlānī al-Ashkūrī].

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.

al- Khiṣāl al-mukaffirah lil-dhunūb al-muqaddamah wa-al-muʼakhkharah : manuscript, undated

Bound with: Risālat al-Surūr fī ḥaqq wālidayhi ʻalayhi al-salām / Sājaqlīzādah (ff. 1r-8v).

Kitāb al-Kashf ʻan mujāwazat hādhihi al-ummah al-alf / taʾlīf al-Imām aʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mujtahid Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Jalāl al-Dunyā wa-al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1584

Dated 992 [1584].

Hādhihi qaṣīdah jāmiʻah li-ghālib aḥwāl yawm al-qiyāmah wa-ismuhā Qilādat al-durr al-manthūr fī dhikr al-baʻth wa-al-nushūr : manuscript, undated

Paginated 1-5 in pencil in Arabic numerals.

al- Sayf al-maslūl ʻalā al-zindīq wa-al-sābb al-Rasūl : manuscript, 1583

Title from introduction.

Kitāb Fatḥ al-jawād bi-sharḥ Manẓūmat Ibn al-ʻImād / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah shaykhinā wa-mawlānā Abū al-ʻAbbās al-Shihāb Aḥmad al-Ramlī al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī : manuscript, 1542

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي بعث محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم رحمة للعالمين ... :Incipit

Bayān al-najāsāt al-maʻfū ʻanhā / li-Ibn al-ʻImād : manuscript, 1885

Title from f. 1r in later hand.