Commentary on Solomon Ibn Gabirol's 'Azharot' (poetic list of the Torah's Commandments)
Scope & Content:
The medieval Iberian Jewish rabbi, philosopher, and poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol composed his version of the 'Azharot' / אזהרות, a poetic listing of the Torah's commandments. The Azharot were often recited as part of the liturgy of Shavu'ot / שבעות, 'the Feast of Weeks'. This manuscript contains a c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Hebrew
Date Range:
1890-1930
Extent:
1 stock book (for mercandise), bound by staples, used back-to-front, with 1 cover plus 11 folios.
Poems, belles-lettres, and wise sayings: loose sheets
Scope & Content:
Poems, belles-lettres, and wise sayings from the archive of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED); loose sheets; 12 items. Or 17080 (1). Paean to Moses, beginning, ‘Moses spoke from afar …’ / משה ידבר ממרחקים …. Source unidentified. Compare with handwriting, layout, and literary style of Or 17076, ‘...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1850-1930
Extent:
13 separate items, totaling 14 sheets of paper: Or 17080 (10) contains 2 folios. Other items contain 1 folio each.
The Ruination of Hakham Dangoor’s Rangoon Rabbinate
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Two documents relevant to the ruination of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's Rangoon Rabinate. The back of folio 1 has Jewish calendar calculations for portions of the year 5657 Anno Mundi (1897 CE) Background: Beginning in Shevat 5654 Anno Mundi = January 1894, Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor served a ...
Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s records of communal finances
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Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) was involved with the administration of various charities, including those associated with Baghdad's Great Synagogue, the support of the needy, and collections by emissaries of various Jewish communities abroad. Many of the financial records preserved here are as...
One sheet with numerology on the Hebrew word for 'truth', emet / אמת. Two sheets with allusions and incantations. It is probable that all were scribed by the hand of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor. Or 17083 (1): Numerology (gematria / גימטריה): The three Hebrew consonants alef-mem-taṿ / אמת spel...
18 separate pieces of correspondence to or from Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) Or 17084 (1). From Yaakov Meir, Chief Rabbi of Palestine to HED, dated 19(?) Kislev 5685 (= 16 DEC 1924). Language: Hebrew. Or 17084 (2). From [Rabbi] David Ḥay Meir Yosef Nisim, Baghdad / הצעיר דוד חי מאיר יוסף נ...
Torah insights, sermons, and alphabetical indices of Talmudic treatment of various topics: small note pad
Scope & Content:
One of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's compilations, including Torah insights, sermons, and alphabetical indices of Talmudic treatment of various topics: Folio 1r: [1] End of a discussion determining the ages of the family members of Jacob, the biblical patriarch; [2] overcoming the evil inclinatio...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Aramaic and Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
1 small perforated tear-off note pad, 81 folios extant
This pad was used by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED), in the last couple years of his life (from 1928), as a personal jotter. It contains drafts of his writings (letters, notes, sermons, calendars), and financial calculations. In a way that is not accessible from polished works on specific topi...
Legends of Joseph, in Judeo-Arabic, expanding on the biblical narrative. Paginated with Arabic numerals. On some pages, Indian numerals are added alongside the Arabic ones. The name 'Elias Ezra/Esra' is written on the bottom of folio 10b (= page 26).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
One paperback notebook. Hand-bound. Missing: front cover and pages 1-6 (= three folios). Extant: 39 folios (pages 7 - 84) and back cover. Pages decorated with light red and / or blue coloured pencil border.