Student notebook of Ebenezer Parkman, 1720

The small hardcover notebook contains a manuscript copy of Charles Morton's Natural Philosophy copied by student Ebenezer Parkman (Harvard Class of 1721) in 1720, as well as notes on Hebrew grammar. The flyleaf has a faded note, "[This copy] was probably made by Parkman H.U. 1721 afterward minister of Westboro." The title page of the volume includes the handwritten title "Phylosophia Natvralis: Naturall Philosophy, By the Reverd Mr. Charles Morton Pastor of a Church in Charles Town, Beegan [sic] to recite it December 11, 1720 Willm Brattle's Book 1720 ended January 30 Anno Domini 1720 [January 30, 1720/1721]." The final page of the transcription is signed and dated "June 18, 1720 Parkman." The last pages of the volume consist of notes on Hebrew Grammar titled "Instruction in Hebrew."

Student notebook of Jonathan Trumbull, 1724-1725

The bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Harvard student Jonathan Trumbull in 1724 and 1725. The volume includes transcriptions of Harvard Instructor Judah Monis' Hebrew Grammar, Tutor William Brattle's Compendium of Logic, and Fellow Charles Morton's Natural Logic.

Greek translations by Benjamin Wadsworth, 1766

Two-page handwritten Greek translations created by Harvard sophomore Benjamin Wadsworth on folio-sized paper. The document contains Greek translations of two letters from J. Garretson's "English exercises for school-boys to translate into Latin," copied by Wadsworth in 1766. The first page contains two sections: "As it is in English. A Letter from one friend to another," containing a copy of Garretson's Epistle IV from "E.C.," and a Greek translation of the letter beginning "Kypie..." The second page contains a Greek translation of Garretson's Epistle III from "B.J," and a note by Wadsworth: "A Letter from one Brother to another. Taken out of Garetson's English Exercise. The 3rd Exercise. or 135st page. There is not room or I would write down the English out of which I translated it. September the 2d A.D. 1766. When I was a sophomore." The document is bordered with hand-drawn double lines.

Student lecture notes of Benjamin Peirce, 1797-1798

This collection contains approximately twenty-three handwritten lecture summaries on six leaves made by Harvard undergraduate Benjamin Peirce between September 1797 and November 22, 1798. The summaries generally provide a few sentences describing the topic covered and primarily pertain to lectures on English grammar delivered by Eliphalet Pearson, the Hollis Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. There are also summaries for single lectures by David Tappan, the Hollis Professor Divinity; Samuel Webber, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; and John Snelling Popkin, the Greek Tutor from 1795 to 1798, and later the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. There is also an undated summary of a lecture by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic.

Grammatica graeca, 1763

Bound volume containing a handwritten Greek grammar compiled by Joseph Drury beginning in 1763. The last sixteen pages contain a historical poem beginning, “Mason might once assert a Poets Claim. / But he must needs write.” The poem contains references to the “Great Patriot P—,“ the Roman conquest of Gall, Caeser, Versailles, and includes the verses, “How the King doth all his Cooks excel / Besides he longs to kiss his P / Saving your presence Louis keeps a whore.”

Daryā-yi laṭāfat

taṣnīf-i Mīr Inshaʼ Allāh Khān va niṣf-i s̲ānī-i muʼallifah-i Mirzā Muḥammad Ḥusayn Qatīl.

Risālah-ʼi istidlālīyah

li-ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá al-Ṭarasūsī.

Hādhā kitāb Sirr al-layāl fī al-qalb wa-al-ibdāl

taʼlīf Aḥmad Fāris al-mulaqqab bi-al-Shidyāq.

Hādhā kitāb al-Fīrūzaj: Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj

li-Muḥammad ʻĪsá ʻAskar.

Tajrīd al-lughāt

ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá Bādkūbī ; bi-ihtimām-i Muḥammad Ismāʻīl ibn Raḥīm Khunsārī.

Muʻallim al-aṭfāl

li-Aḥmad Ḥusaynʹzādah.

Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ : manuscript, 1682

Written in one column, from 6 to 23 lines per page, in black and red.

Kāfiyah

li-Ibn al-Ḥājib.

Hādhihi Ḥawāshī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Risālah al-waḍʻīyah al-ʻAḍudīyah / li-shaykhinā al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black.

Sharḥ al-Lubāb fī ʻilm al-iʻrāb : manuscript, 1365

Title from inside cover in a later handscript.