Rawḍ al-akhyār al-muntakhab min Rabīʻ al-abrār : manuscript, 1576

Title from f. 2r.

El-Okyanus fî tercemeti'l-Kamus

[mütercimi Ahmet Asım].

Nawādir Mawlānā al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-ḥibr al-baḥr al-qudwah al-fahhāmah al-ustādh Aḥmad Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalyūbī

Date and imprint taken from colophon.

Kitāb Bahjat al-asrār wa-maʻdan al-anwār fī baʻḍ manāqib al-quṭb al-Rabbānī wa-al-ghawth al-Ṣamadānī wa-al-baḥr al-zākhir al-nūrānī ṣāḥib al-maqām al-ʻalī Muḥyī al-Dīn Abī Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī

taʼlīf Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf Abī Faḍl al-Shaṭnūbī. Wa-bi-hāmishihi Kitāb Riyāḍ al-basātīn fī akhbār al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlī Muḥyī al-Dīn taʼlīf Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Kīlānī al-Tūnisī.

Kitab al-amthal =: seu proverbiorum Arabicorum centuriæ duæ : ab anonymo quodam Arabe collectæ & explicatæ

cum interpretatione Latina & scholiis Iosephi Scaligeri et Thomæ Erpenii.

Amthāl Luqmān al-Ḥakīm wa-baʻḍ aqwāl al-ʻArab =: Locmani Sapientis Fabulae et selecta quaedam Arabum adagia

cum interpretatione latina & notis Thomae Erpenii.

Sharḥ Kitāb al-Durr al-aʻlá : manuscript, 1805

Written in one column, 21 lines per page, in black and red ink.

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.

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.

Sūrat Yūsuf wa-tahajjī al-ʻArab =: Historia Iosephi Patriarchae ex Alcorano, Arabicè

cum triplici versione Latina, & scholijs Thomae Erpenii, cujus & alphabetum Arabicum praemittitur.

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.

Rafʻ al-iltibās ʻan munkar al-iqtibās / taʼlīf Shaykh mashāyikh al-Islām Imām al-aʼimmah al-aʻlām ... Shaykh al-Islām al-Shams Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Luṭf : manuscript, 1585

Copy completed at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 993 [April 1585], apparently from author's copy.

Compedium of astrology, numerology and fortune-telling : manuscript, undated

Iran Jewett manuscript no. 7.

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.