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Or 17090

Record Id:

032-004377974

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-004377974

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100169037466.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Or 17090

Title:

Draft materials for Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's work 'Mover/Driver of Time' מסייר אל זמאן

Scope & Content:

Drafts of sections of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's (HED’s) ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן. The work is an encyclopaedic presentation of Jewish ideas, religious practice, wisdom, ethics, and civilisation, contextualised by aspects of world civilisation. Most of these folios have the Judeo-Arabic word NḲLT / נקלת written on top. In context, this seems to mean ‘copied’, viz. copied from these draft sheets into the fair copy, preserved, in 10 notebooks, in MS Or 17088.

Or 17090 (1): [1] Translation into Judeo-Arabic of the Jewish marriage contract; [2] list of 9 items (including a magic square) in Judeo-Arabic; [3] Early draft of the opening of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן, with the Hebrew original and the Judeo-Arabic translation in parallel columns.

Or 17090 (2): Draft of the opening section and some subsequent sections of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן, with the Hebrew original and the Judeo-Arabic translation in parallel columns. The first two sheets were numbered 1 and 2 by HED; but the rest of the sheets were not numbered by him, and are here ordered randomly.

Or 17090 (3): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: The Week; The Sabbath.

Or 17090 (4): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: The Year Cycle: The 4 special Torah readings: Shekels, Remember, Heifer, and New Month; Passover – Festival of Matsah (unleavened bread); ‘Omer; Shavu‘ot; the Month of Elul and repentance; Rosh Hashanah; Repentance; Sukot and lulav; and the verso of the final sheet segues from the year cycle into daily practices: reciting the Shema‘ and prayer.

Or 17090 (5): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Daily religious performance and mindset: Prayer; Tefillin; Ancient Israel.

Or 17090 (6): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Fundamentals of Torah and observance. Folio 9 is a gloss noted at the bottom of folio 8, but the main text runs from folio 8 to folio 10.

Or 17090 (7): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Ethics, emotions: anger; despondency / depression; ethics; humility; contentment; anger; asking for forgiveness; wise stories. From folio 3, the folios are numbered 22 – 26, and 29 – 33. Folio 9 begins in Hebrew, with a note on translation into Arabic.

Or 17090 (8): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Ethical practices as part of the Jewish religion: honouring one’s parents; Derekh Erets / דרך ארץ = decency; tsedaḳah / צדקה often translated ‘charity’, but more correctly ‘righteousness’; welcoming wayfarers / guests; not speaking badly of others; acts of loving-kindness / interest-free loans; visiting the sick;

Or 17090 (9): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Judeo-Arabic translation of the Jewish marriage contract, followed by other items.

Or 17090 (10): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Great Jewish personalities (Talmudic sages), their stories, and their instructions on how to live, for example, ‘Torah is good with Derekh Erets / דרך ארץ’ (literally ‘the way of the land’).

Or 17090 (11): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Great innovators in world civilisation: Johannes Gutenberg; Christopher Colombus.

Or 17090 (12): Draft of sections of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: General / world / civic wisdom and ethics; ethical parables and tales from world literature.

Or 17090 (13): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: folios numbered 4 – 8 of an uncategorised subsection.

Or 17090 (14): Draft of section of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Hebrew original with note regarding translation into Arabic (unclassified).

Or 17090 (15): Draft of sections of HED’s ‘Mover of Time’ / מסייר אל זמאן: Unclassified.

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Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

The Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor Archive

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-004377974

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-004377974

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

15 separate units:

Or 17090 (1): 2 folios.

Or 17090 (2): 7 folios.

Or 17090 (3): 4 folios.

Or 17090 (4): 15 folios.

Or 17090 (5): 8 folios.

Or 17090 (6): 10 folios.

Or 17090 (7): 12 folios.

Or 17090 (8): 16 folios.

Or 17090 (9): 2 folios.

Or 17090 (10): 5 folios.

Or 17090 (11): 1 folio.

Or 17090 (12): 25 folios.

Or 17090 (13): 5 folios.

Or 17090 (14): 1 folio.

Or 17090 (15): 49 folios.

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Digitised Content:

Languages:

Aramaic
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1860

End Date:

1930

Date Range:

1860-1930

Era:

Place of Origin:

Baghdad, Iraq

Access:

Unavailable as awaiting conservation

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Physical Characteristics:

Or 17090 (1): Dark brown ink on 2 sheets of yellowing, acidic paper, approximately 215 mm x 135 mm.

Or 17090 (2): Grey and brown ink on 7 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (3): Grey and brown ink on 4 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (4): Black, brown, and grey ink on 15 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (5): Black, brown, and grey ink on 8 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (6): Black, brown, and grey ink on 10 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (7): Black, grey, and brown ink on 12 sheets of yellowing, acidic paper, each approximately 215 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (8): Black, grey, and brown ink on 16 sheets of paper, some of which are highly yellowed and acidic, ranging in size between approximately 215 mm x 145 mm and approximately 185 mm x 131 mm.

Or 17090 (9): Grey – black ink on 2 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (10): Grey – black ink on 5 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (11): Grey – black ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (12): Black, grey, and brown ink on 25 sheets of paper, some of which are highly yellowed and acidic, ranging in size between approximately 205 mm x 130 mm, approximately 210 mm x 143 mm, and approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (13): Grey – black ink on 5 sheets of paper, each approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (14): Browinsh ink on single sheet of paper, approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

Or 17090 (15): Black, grey, and brown ink on 49 sheets of paper, some of which are highly yellowed and acidic, ranging in size between approximately 205 mm x 130 mm, approximately 210 mm x 143 mm, and approximately 211 mm x 136 mm.

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Custodial History:

Dangoor Family

Source of Acquisition:

Dangoor Family (heirs of the author/translator/editor/scribe)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Dangoor, Ezra Reuben, Ḥakham Bashi = Chief Rabbi, 1848-1930

Related Archive Descriptions:

Or 17088