Extraits des Registres concernans les Affaires de Canada : manuscript, [not before 1708]

Concern French administration and government of Canada, 1663-1708.

The petitioners for settling His Majesties lands and islands lying between Nova Scotia and the province of Main in New England in America : manuscript, [ca. 1720]

Written in an unidentified hand, signed by Barkstead.

Memoire sur la colonie de Quebec, Plaisance, Gaspé et Capbreton : manuscript, 1663

Concerns conditions in New France and the need for French troops.

Réclamations à l'Assemblée-Nationale en faveur des anciens habitans de l'Acadie transportés en France lors de la prise de Louisbourg et particulierement en faveur de ceux débarqués à Cherbourg le 14 janvier 1760: Distribué au profit des acadiens 1790 : manuscript, 1790

Documents concern the landing of Acadian refugees at Cherbourg on 14 Jan. 1760.

Copy of Gov[erno]r Philips's additional instructions about settling some Palatine families in Nova Scotia: Copy Col. Dunbar's additional instruction about settling some Irish families in Nova Scotia : manuscript, [1730]

Copies of two documents, approved 20 Apr. 1730; instructions to Richard Philips state that a number of Protestant Irish and Palatine families have been granted land in Nova Scotia, to be surveyed by David Dunbar; and instructions to Dunbar to survey and lay out land for the families.

Sermon : manuscript, 1768

Sermon on John 15:1-2.

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).

Relation de la conversion de Mr. Jean Thayer: autrefois ministre protestant à Boston, en l'Amérique Septentrionale, converti à la religion catholique à Rome, le 25 de mai 1783 et prêtre depuis la Trinité 1787 / manuscript, [after 1788]

écrite par lui-même en 1788 :

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

Instructional book in algebra with exercises.

Kitâb-ı ahdnâme-yi hümâyûn-ı saâdet-makrûn : manuscript, 1740?

According to the colophon (f. 23r), copy of capitulations of 4 Rebīʻ I 1153 AH [May 31, 1740 AD], signed by the Grand Vezir el-Ḥācc Meḥmed Paşa and the French envoy Louis-Sauveur, Marquis de Villeneuve (mentionned f. 3r), granted to France. Contains renewal of the capitulations granted during the Reign of Sultan Meḥmed IV (r. 1058-99 [1648-87]) with some newly introduced articles.

Hādhā kitāb Kurūm ʻarāyis al-tahānī sharḥ Ṣalawāt Ibn Mashīsh al-Dānī / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Fāḍil al-Ṣūfī al-Humām al-Shaykh Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī al-Khalwatī : manuscript, 1840

Author's own abridgement of his longer commentary on Moroccan sufi Ibn Mashīsh's prayer book known as Ṣalawāt. Longer version is titled: Rawḍāt al-ʻarshīyah fī al-kalām ʻala al-Ṣalawāt al-Mashīshīyah.

Hikayat Raja Kulawandu : manuscript, 1838

Title from f. 1r.

Kitāb Adab al-kātib fī al-maṣāḥif 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 nastaʻlīq script in black ink, rubricated in red, 13 lines per page, with marginal corrections. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf.

Risālah fī al-ʻamal bi-rubʻ al-dāyirah al-ālah al-maʻrūfah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ʻIzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʼī al-Muwaqqit bi-Jāmiʻ al-Muʼayyad : manuscript, 1673

Unbound.

Hādhihi taʻlīqah laṭīfah fī-mā yataʻallaq bi-qawl al-Nabīy ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam "ḥubbiba ilayya min dunyākum al-nisāʼ wa-al-ṭīb wa-juʻilat qurrat ʻaynī fī al-ṣalāt" / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn ʻumdat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-muḥaddithīn Sayyidī Abū al-Suʻūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakī al-Dīn al-Khazrajī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1685

Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Title written in green and red ink.