Thabat al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Bābilī : manuscript, undated

Written in one column, 49 lines per pages, in black.

Hādhihi taʻlīqah laṭīfah fī-mā yataʻallaq bi-qawl al-Nabīy ṣallá Allāhu ʻalayhi wa-sallam "ḥubbiba ilayya min dunyākum al-nisāʼ wa-al-ṭīb wa-juʻilat qurrat ʻaynī fī al-ṣalāt" / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ālim al-Allāmah wa-al-baḥr al-fahhāmah Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-muslimīn ʻumdat al-fuqahāʼ wa-al-muḥaddithīn Sayyidī Abū al-Suʻūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Zakī al-Dīn al-Khazrajī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1685

Written in one column, 15 lines per page, in black rubricated in red. Title written in green and red ink.

Majmūʻah : manuscript, [ca. 1643]

1. Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah / Kınalızade (ff. 1v.-21 v.) -- 2. Fihrist ṭabaqāt aṣḥāb al-Imām al-Aʻẓam Abū Ḥanīfah (ff. 21v-23v.) -- 3. Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanafīyah / Ibn Quṭlubughā, Rajab 1053 [1643] (ff. 23v.-55v) -- 4. Kitāb al-alfāẓ (ff. 56r-71r) -- 5. Beginning of a risālah by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zādah Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-Āqshahrī (f. 71v) -- 6. A biographical dictionary, titled at the end "Tārīkh Ibn Khāllikān" (ff. 74v-97r) -- 7. Another biographical dictionary (ff. 97v-109r) -- 8. Ḥikāyāt (stories) (ff. 110v.-112v) -- 9. Biographical notes and excerpts (ff. 113r-116r).

Kitāb Maʻdan al-yawāqīt al-multamiʻah fī manāqib al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah : manuscript, undated

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي جعل علماء هذه الأمة في إيضاح الأمور الغمة كابنياء بني إسرائيل... :Incipit

Sharḥ al-Nukhbah fī uṣūl ʻilm al-ḥadīth / lil-ʻAllāmah Ibn Ḥajar : manuscript, 1725 or 1726

Title from f. 1r.

Tarjamat Fayḍ Allāh Afandī : manuscript, undated

Autobiography of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi.

Hādhihi risālat Iḍāʼat al-badrayn fī tarjamat al-Shaykhayn / lil-ʻAllāmah Sayyidī al-Shaykh Ismāʻīl al-ʻAjlūnī. manuscript, undated

Holograph copy. f. 61r: "hādhihi bi-khaṭṭ al-muʼallif raḥimahu allāh."

Tārīkh al-Muslimīn min ṣāḥib sharīʻat al-Islām Abī al-Qāsim Muḥammad ilá Dawlat al-Atābakīyah =: Historia saracenica, qua res gestae Muslimorum, inde a Muhammede primo imperij & religionis muslimicæ auctore, usque ad initium imperij Atabacaei, per XLIX imperatorum successionem fidelissimè explicantur. Insertis etiam passim christianorum rebus in orientis potissimum ecclesijs eodem tempore gestis

arabicè olim exarata à Georgio Elmacino ... et latinè reddita operâ ac studio Thomae Erpenii. Accedit & Roderici Ximenez ... Historia Arabum, longè accuratius, quam antè, è manuscripto codice expressa.

Kitāb Munyat al-muftī / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-Fāḍil al-ʻAllāmah Jamāl al-Dīn Muftī al-muslimīn Yūsuf ibn Abī Asʻad ibn Aḥmad al-Sijistānī. manuscript, 1481

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبالله التوفيق والاعانة وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل الحمد لله الواحد ... :Incipit

Hādhihī risālah sharīfah fī al-amr bi-al-maʻrūf wa-al-nahy ʻan al-munkar / taʼlīf Shaykh al-Islām wa-al-Muslimīn Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī : manuscript, 1658

A treatise on the principle of "commanding right and forbidding wrong" in Islam.

Kitāb mashāyikh wa-marwīyāt al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Nakhlī al-Makkī allafahu fī mashāyikhihi wa-marwīyātih : manuscript, 1744

Unbound.

Declaration signed by Harvard students to not speak in the vernacular for one year, 1712 August 23

The declaration, handwritten in Latin and signed by members of the junior and sophomore classes (Harvard Classes of 1714 and 1715), promises that the undersigned will not use the vernacular but instead "whenever, at meals, at banquets,...in our rooms, in all our gatherings, wherever and whenever" will speak in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew through the next May. Additional Latin text appears on both the front and back of the document. The original is accompanied by a typed transcription and two partial handwritten translations. Note at top of original: "Script. Leonardo Dowding, Composit. a Tho. Foxcroft."

A copy of the general map the most part compiled from the actual survey by order of the commisioners appointed to settle the partition line between the provinces of New York and New Jersey : manuscript map, 1769

Map showing the whole of New Jersey and its borders with as well as part of Pennsylvania and New York. Map is drawn in black ink with green, pink, and yellow watercolors used to show features such as waterways, borders, and places of interest. Notes on map concern border disputes between New Jersey and New York.

Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789: taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice

Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts. (Formerly MS 2141.)

Letter to Samuel Dexter, 13 November 1796

Letter regarding a bankruptcy case, later heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1797 (3 Dallas 369; Emory v. Greenough) and the upcoming national election.