Compendium logicæ secundum principia D. Renati Descarte catechisticè propositum : [1693]

Small leather hardcover volume containing a manuscript copy of William Brattle’s abstract of René Descartes’ "Compendium Logicae" copied in Latin, likely by Thomas Phipps in 1693. A crossed out inscription on the inside back cover appears to read “Thomas Phips 1693” likely referring to Thomas Phipps, a member of the Harvard Class of 1695.

Notebook of Obadiah Ayer, 1708-1716

The leather-bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Obadiah Ayer while he was a student at Harvard, and after his graduation in 1710. There is a general index to the included texts at the end of the volume.

Compendium logica in quatuor partes, 1701

Small hardcover notebook containing a manuscript copy of William Brattle's abstract of René Descartes' "Compendium Logicae" copied in Latin by Harvard student Joseph Metcalf between April 29th and May 7th, 1701. The text includes an ornately decorated title page and drawings and notes on the flyleaves. The covers are unattached. The inside front cover is inscribed: "Joseph Burbeen Walker 1845."

Compendium physicæ ex authoribus extractum, 1714

Manuscript copy of Charles Morton’s Compendium Physicae prepared by copyist Robert Ward in 1714. The leather-bound volume includes text and drawings, and there is an index to the chapters of the book at the end of the volume. "Thomas Greaves's book Octob 1 Anno Salutis 1714" inscribed on flyleaf. Thomas Greaves may refer to the Charlestown physician and judge and member of the Harvard Class of 1703.

Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico ca. 1718

Small paper notebook with a handwritten copy of a Latin text titled “Quaedam Theses extractae potissimii ex Enchiridio Metaphisico” attributed to John Clark and J. Remington and copied by a Harvard student, likely Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718). The text is a précis of sections of Jean Le Clerc's "Ontologia et Pneumatologia" prepared by Harvard Tutor Jonathan Remington (Harvard AB 1696). The paper cover is inscribed “Carpenter” and the first page includes the inscriptions “Rosewell Saltonstall,” “Ezra Carpenter,” and "R. Dana” indicating the book was once owned by Harvard students Richard Dana (Harvard AB 1718), Roswell Saltonstall (Harvard AB 1720), and Ezra Carpenter (Harvard AB 1720).

Student notebook of James Varney, 1721-1725

The bound notebook contains academic texts copied by Harvard student James Varney in the early 1720s. The texts are written tête-bêche (where both ends of the volume are used to begin writing). The front paste-down endpaper reads 'James Varney his book 1724,' and the rear paste-down endpaper reads 'Joseph Lovett' [AB 1728].

Kitāb Sullam al-ʻulūm wa-ḥāshiyatihi al-mashhūrah bi-al-Qāḍī maʻa minhīyātih

[Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr al-Bihārī].

Sharḥ Īsāghūjī : manuscript, 1768

Missing one leaf or leaves at the beginning.

Ḥāshiyat malik al-ʻulamāʼ Mawlānā ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ʻalá ḍābiṭat Tahdhīb al-manṭiq : manuscript, 1854 or 5

Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black and red.

Takrîr-i İsagoci : manuscript, 1793

Introductory treatise on logic in form of commentary on Porphyry's "Isagoge" (d. 305).

Hādhā Ghāyat tahdhīb al-kalām fī taḥrīr al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām wa-taqrīb al-marām min taqrīr ʻaqāʼid al-Islām : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, from 14 to 19 lines per pages, in black and red.

Majmūʻah: 1. al-Qāḍī maʻa al-manhīyāt, 2. al-Ḥāshiyah li-Mawlānā Muḥammad Yūsuf, 3. al-Ḥāshiyah li-Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ Darrāz, 4. al-Sullam maʻa al-Tanbīhāt

Lithographed.

Sharḥ Sullam Ḥamd Allāh Mawlawī

bi-taḥshīyat Mawlānā Mawlawī Ilāhī Bakhsh Fayḍābādī ; [bi-taṣḥīḥ Muḥammad Abū Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Khān].

Kitāb al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb

Treatise on the canon of medicine.

Sharḥ ʻalá Īsāghūjī : manuscript, 1778

According to colophon (f. 28r), copy completed on 24 Muḥarram 1192 [February 22, 1778] in the hand of Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʻAlī Ṭāhir ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Qāsim.