Eikha ve-Kinot (Book of Lamentations; Elegies for the Ninth of Av), Manuscript on Paper [Cochin, India: late 19th century]

64 leaves (8 ½ x 6 ¾ in.; 210 x 170 mm). Title in pencil f.1; final leaf blank. COLLATION: [1]-1-62, [1]. Written in brown ink on lined paper in Hebrew square script with vowel points (nikud); line-by-line translation in Malayalam; 12-19 lines to the page. Red cloth.

David Solomon Sassoon—his ms # 444

Ohel David, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, 1932. Vol. I, p.32; 444.

The biblical book of Lamentations and accompanying Kinot (elegies) to be recited on the Ninth day of Av, in commemoration of the destruction of the Temple, according to the rite of the Indian Jewish community of Cochin. The Kinot section comprises twenty-three elegies, including works by Judah ha-Levi and Moses Ibn Ezra, written in Hebrew with a line-by-line translation into Malayalam. Ya'ari does not record a printed edition of this work.