Hot thermal X-ray emission from the Be star HD 119682

We present an analysis of a series of four consecutive Chandra high-resolution transmission gratings observations, amounting to a total of 150 ks, of the Be X-ray source HD 119682 (=1WGA J1346.5–6255), a member of the new class of γ Cas analogs. The Chandra light curve shows significant brightness variations on timescales of hours. However, the spectral distribution appears rather stable within each observation and during the whole campaign. A detailed analysis is not able to detect any coherent pulsation up to a frequency of 0.05 Hz. The Chandra High Energy Transmission Gratings spectrum seems to be devoid of any strong emission line, including Fe Kα fluorescence. The continuum is well described with the addition of two collisionally ionized plasmas of temperatures kT ≈ 15 keV and 0.2 keV, respectively, by the apec model. Models using photoionized plasma components (mekal) or non-thermal components (powerlaw) give poorer fits, providing support for the pure thermal scenario. These two components are absorbed by a single column with N H = (0.20+0.15 –0.03) × 1022 cm–2 compatible with the interstellar value. We conclude that HD 119682 can be regarded as a pole-on γ Cas analog.

Bienes muebles de mudéjares castellonenses. Siglo XV

Transcripción y estudio de 23 inventarios de bienes muebles de mudéjares castellonenses a través de los libros del Corte de Justicia para Castellón, Segorbe y Onda, fuente de muchos datos de diverso tipo sobre la vida de estos mudéjares y que generalmente se redactan post mortem para satisfacer deudas del fallecido. Se centra el análisis en la propiedad de animales de tiro y transporte, el trabajo de las fibras textiles y los elementos externos que los diferencian de los cristianos.

Sermons : manuscript, 1709-1722

64 sermons on verses from John, Proverbs, Revelations, Matthew, and other books of the Bible, with notation of dates and places delivered in and around Boston.

Mathematical notebook, and commonplace book, circa 1689-1769

Manuscript notebook, possibly kept by Harvard students, containing 17th century English transcriptions of arithmetic and geometry texts, one of which is dated 1689-1690; 18th century transcriptions from John Ward’s “The Young Mathematician’s Guide”; and notes on physics lectures delivered by John Winthrop, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1738 to 1779. The notebook also contains 18th century reading notes on Henry VIII, Tudor succession, and English history from Daniel Neal’s “The History of the Puritans” and David Hume’s “History of England,” and notes on Ancient history, taken mainly from Charles Rollin’s “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.” Additionally included are an excerpt from Plutarch’s “Lives” and transcriptions of three articles from “The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle,” published in 1769: “A Critique on the Works of Ovid”; a book review of “A New Voyage to the West-Indies”; and “Genuine Anecdotes of Celebrated Writers, &.” The flyleaf contains the inscription “Semper boni aliquid operis facito ut diabolus te semper inveniat occupatum,” a variation on a quote of Saint Jerome that translates approximately as “Always good to do some work so that the devil may always find you occupied.” In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Harvard College undergraduates often copied academic texts and lecture notes into personal notebooks in place of printed textbooks. Winthrop used Ward’s textbook in his class, while the books of Hume, Neal, and Rollin were used in history courses taught at Harvard in the 18th century.

ʻUmdat al-rāyiḍ fi fann al-farāyiḍ / min taʼlīf al-ʻĀlim al-Amjad Ḥaḍrat Qāḍī al-Mulk : manuscript, 1855 or 56

According to the colophon (f. 25v), copy completed in 1272 AH [1855 or 56 AD].

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.

Hādhā Risālah fī ṣadāq Sayyidatinā Fāṭimah al-Zahrāʼ bint Sayyid al-Mursalīn / lil-Fāḍil al-ʻAllāmah Imām al-ʻulamāʼ Mawlawī Ṣibghat Allāh Qāḍī al-Mulk : manuscript, 1863 or 4

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb Madārik al-aḥkām fī sharḥ Sharāʼiʻ al-Islām : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black and red.

Kitāb Sharḥ al-Sirājīyah fī ʻilm al-farāyiḍ / lil-ʻAllāmah Ḥaydar : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 28 or 29 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Comments in the margins.

Sharḥ al-asmāʼ al-ḥusná : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one or two columns, from 21 to 26 lines per pages, in black rubricated in red. Folios 6v-13r framed within double black lines.

Hādhā kitāb Sharḥ khawāṣṣ al-manẓūmah al-musammāh bi-al-Dimyāṭīyah

Lithographed.

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.

Risālah fī taqrīr al-adillah wa-al-shawāhid ʻalá wujūb al-ḥufwah fī al-masājid / taʼlīf Sayyidinā wa-Mawlānā Shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām ... al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Luṭf : manuscript, 1584

Foliated 184-188; paginated 1-9, both in Arabic numerals.

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 risālah tusammá Awāʼil al-awāʼil / taʼlīf al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ʻAbd al-Karīm Afandī al-Qāḍī al-Araklī : manuscript, undated

Foliated 203-227; paginated 1-49, both in Arabic numerals.