An abridgment of what I extracted while an undergraduate at Harvard College, 1766-1769

The bound volume contains excerpts copied by Benjamin Wadsworth from books he read as a student at Harvard in the late 1760s. The volume includes almost no personal commentary on the readings. The excerpts are arranged by year of study for the academic years 1766-1769, beginning when Wadsworth was a sophomore. Each entry begins with a title indicating the book title and author for the passage, and there is an alphabetical index at the end of the volume. Wadsworth selected “extracts” from both religious and secular texts including several histories of England, American histories (with a focus on Puritans), the Bible, and in his senior year, “the Koran of Mohammed.” He also read several books on the art of speech and the art of preaching. There are few science texts included, though the final five-page entry is titled, “What I thought fit to note down from Mr. Winthrop’s experimental Lectures” and contains notes both on the content of Professor John Winthrop’s lectures as well as the types of experiments being performed in class. Wadsworth’s commonplace book offers a window on the state of higher education in the eighteenth century and offers a firsthand account of academic life at Harvard College.

Sermon notes compiled by Warham Williams, 1716-1718

Parchment-bound notebook containing notes kept by Warham Williams on sermons he attended between May 20, 1716 and April 20, 1718, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The notebook includes two chronological tables, at the front and end of the volume, that list the town, lecturer (generally Harvard tutors), biblical text, year, month, day, and part of the day of sermons attended by Williams. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related questions and conclusions. From the front of the volume, the pages contain entries for sermons attended between May 20, 1716 through February 13, 1717. Sermon entries for April 7, 1717 to April 20 1718 are written tête-bêche from the other end of the volume.

Sermon notes compiled by Solomon Prentice, 1724-1726

Leather top-bound volume containing notes kept by Solomon Prentice on sermons he attended between April 1724 and December 17, 1726, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The volume contains one-to-two page entries on specific sermons and provides the biblical text and related questions and conclusions.

David Barclay's report of his missionary labors : manuscript, 1800

A chronological account of Barclay's missionary tour, chiefly in New England, 4 July-3 Sept. 1799. Entries mention the religious activities of the areas he visited, and in some cases mention the funds available to hire a minister in the community.

Notes: on sermons : manuscript, 1689-1692

Contains a list of ministers and the dates and topics of their sermons. The ministers are from in and around Boston.

ʻIlm al-Kitāb

Khavājah Mīr al-Muḥammadī al-mutakhalliṣ bi-Dard.

Kitāb Bahjat al-asrār wa-maʻdan al-anwār fī baʻḍ manāqib al-quṭb al-Rabbānī 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

taʼlīf Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf Abī Faḍl al-Shaṭnūbī. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Riyāḍ al-basātīn fī akhbār al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī Muḥyī al-Dīn taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Kīlānī al-Tūnisī.

al- Nuṣḥ al-khāliṣ li-kāffat al-Muslimīn bi-al-tawassul ilayhi taʻālá bi-aṣfiyāʼihi al-muqarrabīn

Abī ʻĪsá Sayyid al-Mahdī ibn Sayyid Muḥammad al-Wazzānī.

Hādhihī risālah sharīfah fī al-amr bi-al-maʻrūf wa-al-nahy ʻan al-munkar / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-Muslimīn Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī : manuscript, 1658

A treatise on the principle of "commanding right and forbidding wrong" in Islam.

Flores de penitencia /

Mode of access: Internet.

Discours ascétique /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [7]-9) and indexes.

Conférences /

Includes bibliographical references.

Suh-ki-li-lih-kiu : the suhṛillekha or 'friendly letter' addressed to King Sadvaha /

Text in English and Chinese, notes in English.

Kitāb al-dharīʻah ilá makārim al-sharīʻah /

Mode of access: Internet.

Muhtasar Şemail-i şerif tercümesi /

Özege, M.S. Eski harflerle,