Rabbinical manuscripts of Judah Monis, ca. 1700s

This leather-bound volume contains ten handwritten Hebrew texts presumably compiled by Judah Monis in the early 18th century. The pieces range from three to 150 pages on different sized leaves and appear to be in multiple hands. The last page of the volume has the struck-through inscription, "Judah Monis' Book" and accompanies a 44-page text. The texts are unattributed and undated, but have been identified as transcriptions of cabalistic writings and include a short biography of Isaac Luria (1533-1572) and extracts from the work of Luria, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah, Abraham ben Isaac of Granada, and Naphtali Bachrach. The transcriptions appear to be unattributed and undated.

A synopsis of naturall philosophy according to the method of the ancients, but improved & augmented with the notions of later philosophers : manuscript, 1677-1679

Possibly autograph, dated at end of volume: Finitu[m] mart: 14, 1678/9. Imperfect copy with title page missing; supplied from a MS copy, dated 29 March 1680, now in the Bodleian Library.

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.

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.

Tuhfet ül-kibar fi esfar il-bihar

Kâtip Çelebi.

Mecmua-yı münşeat-i Feridun Bey

Caption title.

Siyar al-mutaʼakhkhirīn: tārīkh-i mamlakat-i Hind az ibtidā-yi sanah-i 1118 h. tā 1194 h. mutābiq-i 1782 m. mubtanī bar aḥvāl-i salṭanat-i haft salāṭīn-i mutaʼakhkhirīn-i Hindūstān ʻumūman (...)

taṣnīf-i Nawwāb Sayyid Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī ; bi-ihtimām-i ʻAbd al-Majīd.

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

[li-ʻĀṣim ibn Ayyūb al-Baṭalyawsī].

The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa: dividid into all its governments, together with the other territories that are tributary to it, as also the dominions of ye Emperor of Marocco [sic] according to the newest and most exact observations

by H. Moll.

Ijāzat Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār li-Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān : manuscript, [ca. 1780-1800]

An ijāzah issued by Aḥmad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār to his student Muḥammad ibn Shafīʻ Sulṭān. The student's name is mentioned on fol. 1v; the master's name on fol. 6r. In the ijāzah al-ʻAṭṭār traces his authority back to al-Qasṭallānī's al-Mawāhib al-ladunnīyah, then to al-Shāfiʻī, and then gives his isnād of a musalsal ḥadīth.

Kitāb Laṭāʼif akhbār al-uwal fī-man taṣarrafa fī Miṣr min al-duwal / taʼlīf sayyidinā wa-mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAlī al-Isḥāqī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1733

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :Incipit

Theatrum historicum ad annum Christi quadrigentesimũ: in quo tũ Imperii Romani tũ Barbarorum circumincolentium status ob oculos ponitur pars orientalis

Auctore Guillelmo Delisle.

Netâicü'l-fünûn / li-Nev'î Efendi : manuscript, undated

Concise encyclopedia on twelve sciences: 1. history; 2. philosophy; 3. astronomy; 4. theology; 5. principles of law; 6. controverted points; 7. exegesis; 8. mysticism; 9. interpretation of dreams; 10. magic, charm, and medecine; 11. agriculture; 12. astrology and divination.

The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestates: in Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript

with a verbal translation and explanatory notes by William Jones.

Kitāb al-Ḥujjah fī sariqāt ibn Ḥijjah / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻAllāmah ... Abī ʻAbd Allāh Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Nawājī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, undated

Missing leaves at the end.