The invention of letters annotated by Charles Pinckney Sumner, ca. 1795-1796

Interleaved second-edition copy of Robert Treat Paine's poem "The Invention of Letters" with handwritten excerpts of 18th century poetry copied by Charles Pinckney Sumner. The excerpts appear to be verses alluded to, or emulated, by Paine in the poem. For example, Paine's verse includes "Beneath the shade, which Freedom's oak displays" and Sumner on the opposite page quoted Alexander Pope's poetry, "Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays." The excerpts include poetry by Alexander Pope, James Thompson, Robert Dodsley, William Falconer, William Hayley, Samuel Rogers, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Gray, and John Denham.

Miss Rebecca Story's book : manuscript, 1796-[ca. 1803]

Commonplace book of poetry some by Porter; with a list of names of female students at Mr. Woodbridge Academy, 1796. Also includes a poem by Porter concerning the death of her brother, Isaac Story (A. B. 1793).

Student notes from medical lectures by Benjamin Rush, undated

The volumes contain student notes on a course of medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) while he was Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical Practice at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, likely in circa 1800-1813. The notes indicate Rush often referenced the works or teachings of contemporaries such as Scottish physicians William Cullen, John Brown, John Gregory, and Robert Whytt, and Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave. He frequently included anecdotes and case histories of his own patients, as well as those of other doctors, to illustrate his lecture topics. He also advised students to take notes on the lectures after they ended to allow them to focus on what they were hearing. Volume 1 includes notes on: physician conduct during visits to patients; human and animal physiology; voice and speech; the nervous system; the five senses; and faculties of the mind. Volume 2 includes notes on: food, the sources of appetite and thirst, and digestion; the lymphatic system; secretions; excretions; theories of nutrition; differences in the minds and bodies of women and men; reproduction; pathology; a table outlining the stages of disease production; “disease and the origin of moral and natural evil”; contagions; the role of food, drink, and clothing in producing disease; worms; hereditary diseases; predisposition to diseases; proximate causes of diseases; and pulmonary conditions. Volume 3 includes notes on: the pulse; therapeutics, such as emetics, sedatives, and digitalis, and treatment of various illnesses like pulmonary consumption, kidney disease, palsy, and rheumatism; diagnosis and prognosis of fever; treatment of intermitting fever; and epidemics including plague, smallpox, and yellow fever, with an emphasis on the yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia in 1793 and 1797.

Sable I. -- Fredericton N.B

[drawn by Erwin Raisz].

Kitāb-i Khayrāt-i ḥisān

az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.

Kitāb al-Barāhīn al-bayyināt fī bayān ḥaqāʼiq al-ḥayawānāt

li-muʼallifihi Muḥammad al-Iskandarānī.

Kitāb Bahjat al-asrār wa-ma��dan al-anwār fī baʻḍ manāqib al-quṭb al-Rabb��nī wa-al-ghawth al-Ṣamadānī wa-al-baḥr al-zākhir al-nūrānī ṣāḥib al-maqām al-ʻalī Muḥyī al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī

ta��līf Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf Abī Fa���l al-Sha���nūb��. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Riyāḍ al-basātīn fī akhb��r al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī Muḥyī al-Dīn ta��līf Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Kīlānī al-Tūnisī.

Hādhā kitāb Qiṣa��� al-ʻulamāʼ

min ta��līfāt al-ʻālim al-fāḍil al-kāmil nukhbat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-al-mujtahidīn al-Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Tunukābunī.

Kitāb Adab al-kātib fī al-ma���āḥif wa-fīhi ʻadad al-āyāt wa-ḥarfuhā wa-al-ḥurūf fī akhir al-āyāt / li-al-Shaykh ʻAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī : manuscript, 1602

Written in one column, in a nasta��līq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 13 lines per page, with marginal corrections. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.

Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn ʻan arbaʻīn min arbaʻīn li-arbaʻīn fī arbaʻīn / ta��līf al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥaddith al-Shām Nāṣir al-Sunnah afḍal al-Muta��akhkhirīn awḥad al-ʻUlamāʼ ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAsākir al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1287

Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black.

Kitāb Mufarriḥ al-nafs / ta���nīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Sharaf al-Dīn Abī Na���r Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī al-Futūḥ al-Baghdādī thumma al-Māridīnī al-ma��rūf 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).

Hādhā Kitāb fī uṣūl al-dīn / lil-Imām al-Nasafī : manuscript, undated

1. Kitāb fī uṣūl al-dīn (ff. 1r-38v) -- 2. al-ʻAqīdah al-Ṭa���āwīyah (ff. 39r-47r) -- 3. Muqaddimat Abī al-Layth (ff. 47v-63v) -- 4. Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn lil-Mundhirī (ff. 64r-70v) -- 5. Fāʼidah wa-mimmā naqalahu al-Shaykh Zarrūq al-Maghrib�� al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharh asmāʼ al-ḥusná manāfiʻ al-asmāʼ al-Idrisīyah al-Suhrawardīyah (ff. 71r-78r) -- 6. Fāʼidah jalīlah fī fa���āʼil ṣawm Rama���ān (ff. 78r-96r).

ʻIqd al-jumān fī fa���āyil laylat niṣf Sha��b��n / li-nāẓim al-madīḥ al-nabawī ʻAbd al-Ra���mān [ibn] A���mad ibn ʻAbd al-Ra���mān ibn ʻAlī ibn A���mad ibn al-Misk al-Sakhāwī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī al-Burhānī : manuscript, 1848

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb-i Bahāristān-i marḥūm Mullā Jāmī : manuscript, 1640

Title from caption.

Dhikr ma��rifat a���zāb al-Qurʼān wa-anṣāfihi wa-arb��ʻih : manuscript, undated

Title from caption (fol. 1v).