Mathematical notebook attributed to Thaddeus Mason Harris, ca. 1787

Hardcover notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of rules, cases, and examples from 18th century mathematical texts. The author and purpose of the volume is unclear, though it has been connected with Thaddeus Mason Harris (Harvard AB 1787). Most of the entries include questions and related answers, suggesting the notebook was used as a manuscript textbook and workbook. The extracts appear to be copied from John Dean's " Practical arithmetic" (published in 1756 and 1761), Daniel Fenning's "The young algebraist's companion" (published in multiple editions beginning in 1750), and Martin Clare's "Youth's introduction to trade and business" (extracts first included in 1748 edition).

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.

Popery a complex falsehood: or an attempt to clear and evidence, that it is so, in a lecture had at Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, on May 10th, 1769

The hand-sewn notebook contains a 30-page manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by Samuel Mather on May 10, 1769 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text 2 Thess. 11:11, 12. The copy includes a small number of edits and struck-out words. The item has unattached pages and is in fragile condition. The lecture was never published.

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.

Hādhā kitāb Uqlīdis

taḥrīr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-mushtahir bi-Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.

Tuhfet ül-kibar fi esfar il-bihar

Kâtip Çelebi.

Usul-i fıkıhtan haşiyeli Mecami ül-hakaik

[Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá Khādimī].

Takvim üt-tevarih

li-Kâtib Çelebi.

Fetava-yi Feyziyye ma'an-nukul

[Feyzullah Efendi].

Qānūn dīwān al-rasāʼil: manqūl ʻan nuskhah khaṭṭīyah bi-Maktabat Kambritsh

li-Tāj al-Riyāsah Abī al-Qāsim ʻAlī ibn Munjib ibn Sulaymān al-shahīr bi-Ibn al-Ṣayrafī ; ʻuniya bi-nashrihi wa-al-taʻlīq ʻalayhi ʻAlī Bahjat.

Tarih-i Timur Gürgan

li-Nazmizade Efendi.

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.

Mecmua-yı münşeat-i Feridun Bey

Caption title.

Ishārāt al-uṣūl ilá mafātīḥ al-aḥkām ḥasaba mā yaqtaḍīh al-awqāt wa-al-ayyām

bi-saʻy Mīrzā Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn.