Student essay composed by Curtis Guild, 1795

Two-page handwritten essay written in English by Curtis Guild when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College. The essay is titled with a quote in Latin from Virgil, "Omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis," that translates as, “All the fond Parent’s Care centers in Ascanio.” The essay begins, “The machinery of man is wonderful…” and discusses parental affection. The essay is signed “C Guild” and dated May 7, 1795.

Notebook concerning mathematical equations : manuscript, 1769-1774

Notes on measuring height and distance, trigonometry, spherical projection, and other mathematical equations. Probably William Winthrop (1753-1825; Harvard AB 1770).

Of the invention of theorems : manuscript, [17--]

Mathematical notes, equations, theorems, and definitions. Probablynot by William Winthrop (Harvard AB 1770) as it is different handwriting and language habits from other of his manuscript.

Elements of geometry : manuscript, 1798

Contains work on geometry, trigonometry, surveying, mensuration of heights and distances, and navigation. The graphs and diagrams illustate story problems and navigational examples.

Rule of three : manuscript, 1774

An arithmetic copybook, with accounting problems concerning commercial transactions. There is a reference to the Boston Tea Party in problem no. 68.

Arithmetic copybook : manuscript, [17--]

Arithmetic copybook containing mathematical rules, problems, proofs, and charts of weights and measures.

Awrād al-Ustādh ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

"Ṭabʻ ibn Shaṭṭī ʻAbd al-Salām".

al- Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-khāmis min kitāb al-Intiṣār li-wāsiṭat ʻiqd al-amṣār

taʼlīf Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aydamur al-ʻAlāʼī al-shahīr bi-Ibn Duqmāq.

Hādhihi nubdhah min al-kitāb al-musammá "Niḥlat al-labīb bi-akhbār al-riḥlah ilá al-habīb"

li-Abī al-ʻAbbās Sīdī Aḥmad ibn ʻAmmār.

Kashf al-qināʻ fī taḍmīn al-ṣunnāʻ

[al-Ḥasan ibn Raḥḥāl al-Tadlāwī].

Hādhā Sharḥ Dīwān Imruʼ al-Qays ibn Ḥajar al-Kindī

[li-ʻĀṣim ibn Ayyūb al-Baṭalyawsī].

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.

Hādhā mukhtaṣar kitāb Qaṭf al-azhār min al-Khiṭaṭ wa-al-āthār, mukhtaṣar al-Khiṭaṭ lil-Maqrīzī / lil-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah ... Sibṭ Āl al-Ṣiddīq Mawlānā Abū al-Surūr al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī : manuscript, undated

Written in several hands, in one column, from 17 to 25 lines per page, in black ink, framed within double red lines.

Hādhā kitāb al-Iʻlām tārīkh Bayt Allāh al-Ḥarām wa-al-niṣf al-thānī Tawārīkh Āl ʻUthmān / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām al-Shaykh Quṭb al-Dīn al-Makkī : manuscript, undated

Bound in half leather and boards.

Kitāb Mufarriḥ al-nafs / taṣnīf al-Imām al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Sharaf al-Dīn Abī Naṣr Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī al-Futūḥ al-Baghdādī thumma al-Māridīnī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn al-Marah : manuscript, [ca. 1530]

The author's name appears as ابن المره in title page (f. 1r) and ابن المراه at the beginning of the book (f. 1v).