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Untitled Persian manuscript on jurisprudence

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Description: The manuscript is a commentary on jurisprudence, social and legal regulations, and policiies on fasting, taxes, sales, divorce, enslaved people, lawsuits, gifts, loans, and other topics.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1829.
Call number: mssHM 55677
Creator: Mustafa, Hafid(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of November 1993. Volume has a bookplate: "John Lawrence Smith MD," possibly Dr. John Lawrence Smith, the American chemist and mineralogist. The back cover pastedown includes notes on five other previous owners.
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Untitled Persian manuscript

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Possibly created in India. With eight miniatures of two-headed men, beasts, and beasts with human heads.

mssHM 1112

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This manuscript written by Martín de Herrera describes his and his family's service to the Spanish crown and the alleged misdeeds of Viceroy of New Spain, Álvaro Manrique de Zúñiga. These misdeeds include removing some of the Catholic Church's autonomy, dismissing members of the Treasury, replacing administrators with his own friends, and imposing regulations on the mercury, wine, and meat trades. Herrera also alleges that Manrique de Zúñiga was arresting or exiling any whistle blowers, including Herrera himself, who was jailed, probably in Cuba, when writing this manuscript. Herrera also writes about the hardships he and his brother, Diego, have endured, and their efforts to enlist the sympathy of the Consejo de Indias on their behalf.

mssHM 84508

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Detailed statistical abstracts of Treasury accounts of each branch of public revenues and expenditures, (bulk) 1687-1702

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The present matched set of nine volumes are contemporary or nearly contemporary copies of the Treasury's detailed accounts of annual or semi-annual public revenues from commodity-specific customs and excise fees, goods seized, Parliamentary loans, licensing fees, land and hearth taxes, profits from the Mint, shipping and port taxes, marriage and burial fees, and numerous other revenue streams, each amount collected being set off against specific expenditures on the civil service, army, navy, secret service, government pensions and annuities, interest on the new national debt, building and construction, and other "contingents of divers natures". The precise relation of these records to the Treasury's Annual Account series remains to be established. The volumes are as listed below.

mssHM 69953-69955

Commentary on the Pauline epistles : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-129v: [Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles]: Rubric: Incipit Tractatus Sancti Ambrosii In Epistola Ad Romanos, Paulus servus ihesu christi. Incipit: Apud veteres [nostros ratione] nomina componebantur ut ysaac propter risum ... Explicit: ut securos illos faciat et erigat ne timeant que irrogari possunt a perfidis sed in persecutione alacres//. [This manuscript missing 4 quires after f. 112 (end of commentary on 2 Corinthians, all of Galatians, all of Ephesians, beginning of Philippians); missing one leaf after f. 126 (part of Colossians); missing undetermined amount after f. 127 (end of Colossians, all of 1 Timothy, beginning of 2 Timothy); missing undetermined amount after f. 129 (end of 2 Timothy, all of Titus, all of Philemon); 1 and 2 Thessalonians are copied before Colossians. Each epistle commentary remaining with incipit (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Colossians) is prefaced by a chapter list; the chapter lists in this copy of Ambrosiaster retain forms of the Vetus Latina recension].

mssHM 52435

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Receipt for property taxes paid by Eugene Lemuel Sullivan

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This manuscript is a receipt to Eugene Lemuel Sullivan for taxes paid on property owned in the city of San Francisco. Printed form, filled in and signed by hand.

mssHM 19344

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Untitled manuscript beginning, "We hereby certify..."

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This untitled manuscript reads, "We hereby certify that Ebenezer Darling exercises the privilege of a freeman by voting in Ryegate last year and [---- ----?] still a freeman of Ryegate with undoubted right to exercise the same privilege this year." The manuscript is signed by James Hall, James R. Park, and Archibald Park.

mssHM 80242

Untitled Persian manuscript on jurisprudence

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