Seder le-Simhat Torah (Simhat Torah Liturgy), Scribe: Levi ben Shem Tov Chaligua, Cochin, India: 5637 (1876)

48 leaves (4 7/8 x 3 ¾ in.; 125 x 95mm), final 2 leaves blank. Written in brown ink on paper in Hebrew square script with vowel points (nikud), ruled in pencil; gatherings of 12 leaves; 13 lines to the page; ,slight worming, mostly restricted to margins, some browning due to ink bleed; Sassoon inkstamp, f. 46v, his bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Contemporary half cloth, marbled paper boards.

Samuel ben Joseph Meshuhrar-written for him in 1876, see colophon f.46r; Shlomo Yahuda- his name inscribed on f. 1r; David Solomon Sassoon- see his inkstamp, f. 46v, his bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. 

Ohel David, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, 1932. Vol. I, p.260-61; 140.

The text comprises the order of the morning and afternoon liturgical services for the festival of Simhat Torah, according to the rites of the Indian Jews of Cochin. The rescension in the present manuscript is in agreement with the printed text found in Seder Tefilot Shevahot ve-Shirim ke-Fi Minhagei Anshei Shingili ve-K”K be-Kogin, printed in Amsterdam in 1757.

The present manuscript was formerly in the collection of David Solomon Sassoon. See Ohel David, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, 1932. Vol. I, p.260-61; no. 140.