Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's commentary on Ecclesiastes. Although part of a larger project that includes transcription of the biblical text and a Judeo-Arabic translation, only the commentary is copied here.
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's commentary on Ecclesiastes. Although part of a larger project that includes transcription of the biblical text and a Judeo-Arabic translation, only the commentary is copied here.
Notebook containing: [1] financial accounts of charities & communal institutions related to Baghdad's Great Synagogue; and [2] drafts of Ecclesiastes Commentary.
Scope & Content:
1r - 6r: accounts for the outer Great Synagogue, year 5664 (= 1904). 7r: Accounts (related to above?). 9r - 10v: Donations by members of the community to the Great Synagogue, month of Iyyar, 5664 (= Spring 1904). 11r - 12r (continuation of above): Accounts: building, upkeep, wages. 14r - 33v: ...
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's commentary on Ecclesiastes. Although part of a larger project that includes transcription of the biblical text and a Judeo-Arabic translation, only the commentary is copied here.
Materials connected to Hakham Dangoor’s work on Ecclesiastes
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Background materials and preparatory studies relevant to Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s (HED's) Arabic translation of and Hebrew commentary on Ecclesiastes, and draft fragments of the Hebrew commentary. Or 17045 (1). A 5-folio fragment of the biblical scroll Ecclesiastes with the Arabic translatio...
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's monograph on the fixed Jewish calendar, its coordination with other calendars, and ancillary information. Contains prose and tables. (Folio 1r): Ownership: poem declaring ownership of the book. (Folio 1v): Scope and Content: Beginning with the words seder ‘ibur h...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1887-1930
Extent:
1 hardbound codex, 105 folios, including the original binding plus two added quires
Jewish pocket-sized calendar for 5689 Anno Mundi = 1928 - 1929 Common Era
Scope & Content:
Jewish pocket-sized calendar for 5689 Anno Mundi = 1928 - 1929 Common Era; by Hakham Ezra Dangoor. This may have been a draft in preparation for publication. Folio 1r: Cover, including: invocations; the year, 5689 Anno Mundi; the location, Baghdad; a benediction from Psalm 35:2, the indicated...
Or 17048 (1): folio 1r (fully opening the sheet of paper): Table for years 5615 – 5643 Anno Mundi (= 1854/5 - 1882/3 CE), giving the following information for each year: place in the 19-year ‘Small Cycle’; place in the 28-year ‘Great Cycle’; whether plain or intercalated (= a leap year, with a 1...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1890-1923
Extent:
2 sheets of paper: 1 notebook sheet; 1 broadside sheet
Birthdays and Anniversaries, several Dangoor family members
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Birthday and Anniversary information given for several Dangoor family members in multiple calendars, including: Jewish; Gregorian?; Islamic; & Ottoman Fiscal. Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor: birthday and anniversary; Reuben Sion Dangoor: birthday and anniversary; Moshe Yauda Dangoor: birthday; El...