Rafʻ al-iltibās ʻan munkar al-iqtibās / taʼlīf Shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām Imām al-aʼimmah al-aʻlām ... Shaykh al-Islām al-Shams Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Luṭf : manuscript, 1585

Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 993 [April 1585], apparently from author's copy.

Irtiqāʼ al-siyādah fī ʻilm uṣūl al-naḥw : manuscript, [ca. 1675]

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red.

Risālah fī iʻrāb lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka lahu : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه يفتى وهو حسبى الحمد لله الذي لا يقبل ذاته الجليلة الزوال ... :Incipit

Muwashshaḥ fī al-naḥw / lil-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī : manuscript, 1567

Written from one to four columns, from 17 to 19 lines per page, in black.

Ajwibat al-asʼilah al-ithnay ʻashar fī al-ʻulūm al-ithnay ʻashar : wa-hiya al-ṣarf wa-al-naḥw wa-al-fiqh wa-al-ḥadīth wa-al-tafsīr wa-al-kalām wa-al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-ādāb al-baḥth wa-al-manṭiq wa-al-ḥikmah wa-al-hayʼah / li-Ibn Abī Bakr al-Kurdī : manuscript, 1582

Title from f. 1r.

[ 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.

al- Juzʼ al-thālith wa-al-arbaʻūn min Sharḥ Kitāb Sībawayh / taʼlīf al-Qāḍī Abī al-Saʻīd al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī : manuscript, [ca. 979]

Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.

Le Royaume de Bosnie, dans son entier, dédié a son Excellence Monseignr. le feld Maréchal Comte de Khewenhüller Colonel d'un Régiment de Dragon Vice Roy d'Esclavonie, du Duché de Syrmie et Gouverneur de la Forteresse d'Essegg etc

le très humble et très obéissant serviteur Étienne Briffaut.

Record book of the settlement of the estate of Pelatiah Webster, 1795-1799

Manuscript record of the disposition of the estate of Pelatiah Webster, kept by his daughter and executrix, Ruth Webster Perit. Begins with a statement of Pelatiah Webster's death on 2 September 1795, followed by a certified copy of his will. Record also includes letter of administration; list of charges, credits, and debts against the estate; funeral costs; descriptions of properties; income from rents, 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.

A copy of the general map the most part compiled from the actual survey by order of the commisioners appointed to settle the partition line between the provinces of New York and New Jersey : manuscript map, 1769

Map showing the whole of New Jersey and its borders with as well as part of Pennsylvania and New York. Map is drawn in black ink with green, pink, and yellow watercolors used to show features such as waterways, borders, and places of interest. Notes on map concern border disputes between New Jersey and New York.

Plea in the case of Hamilton v. Saunders, 1763

Plea in response to the plaintiff's declaration. Signed: (Charles) Pinckney, defendant's attorney, and John Rutledge (plaintiff's attorney?). Note on verso: Filed 4th May 1763.

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.)