A catechism geographicall, historical and chronologicall 1719

Notebook of unlined pages with paper marbled cover holding a handwritten copy of Tutor Flynt's "Catechism" likely copied by Harvard student John Wolcott in 1719. The volume lists questions and accompanying answers on various academic subjects. On the last page, the inscription "John Wolcott [the name is crossed over] his geography, 1719" indicates Wolcott (1702-1747), a member of the Harvard class of 1721, copied the book.

Papers of George Godfrey, 1739-1792

The bulk of this collection consists of brief records of civil actions heard by George Godfrey as a justice of the peace for Bristol County, Massachusetts. With only a few interruptions, these records run from February 1754 through the early 1780s. The other documents include several small volumes and loose pages of household accounts, as well as a handful of pages of court records and marriages heard by George Godfrey and his father, John Godfrey.

Grammatica graeca, 1763

Bound volume containing a handwritten Greek grammar compiled by Joseph Drury beginning in 1763. The last sixteen pages contain a historical poem beginning, “Mason might once assert a Poets Claim. / But he must needs write.” The poem contains references to the “Great Patriot P—,“ the Roman conquest of Gall, Caeser, Versailles, and includes the verses, “How the King doth all his Cooks excel / Besides he longs to kiss his P / Saving your presence Louis keeps a whore.”

Journal and orderly book : manuscript, 1758 May-Oct

Copied orders and narrative entries of a military expedition to Schenectady and the Oneida station.

Algebra, or universal mathematics: revived 1738 with notes and additions : manuscript, [after 1738]

Instructional book in algebra with exercises.

Kitāb Fuṣūl al-badāʼiʻ fī uṣūl al-sharāʼiʻ

muʻallifuhu Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī.

Mashāriq al-uṣūl al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-qawānīn wa-baʻḍ al-uṣūl

[Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad].

Hādhā al-Khatm al-mubārak li-Mukhtaṣar al-Shaykh Abī al-Mawaddah Sīdī Khalīl

taʼlīf Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Rashīd al-Ḥusaynī al-ʻIrāqī.

[ Majmūʻat rasāʼil]

li-Maḥmūd Afandī al-Ḥamzāwī.

Ḥāshīyat al-faqīḥ al-ʻālim al-mudarris al-muftī Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Mahdī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khiḍr al-ʻImrānī al-Wazzānī ʻalá Sharḥ Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Tāwudī ibn Sūdah ʻalá Lāmīyat Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Zaqqāq

Lithograph.

Nawādir Mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ḥibr al-baḥr al-qudwah al-fahhāmah al-ustādh Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī

Date and imprint taken from colophon.

Hādhā kitāb Madāʼin al-ʻulūm

taʼlīf Jaʻfar al-Astarābādī.

al-R add al-mubīn ʻalá jahalat al-mutaṣawwifīn

li-Wafā ibn Muḥammad Wafā al-Qūnī.

Ishārāt al-marām min ʻibārāt al-Imām : manuscript, 1722

Light brownish laid paper with watermarks. 21.8 x 15.9 cm. (15.5 x 8 cm.).

ʻIqd al-jumān fī faḍāyil laylat niṣf Shaʻbān / li-nāẓim al-madīḥ al-nabawī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān [ibn] Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Misk al-Sakhāwī al-Anṣārī al-Shāfiʻī al-Burhānī : manuscript, 1848

Title from f. 1r.