[Shirim u-fiyuṭim ke-minhag Ḳots'i]. [שירים ופיוטים כמנהג קוצ׳י]. [Hymns, rite of Cochin].
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Title: [Shirim u-fiyuṭim ke-minhag Ḳots'i]. [שירים ופיוטים כמנהג קוצ׳י]. [Hymns, rite of Cochin].
Classmark: MS ROTH/40
Related People: S S. Koder(Personal name)
Creator(s): (poet); Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (1092-1167)(poet)
Date(s): [20th century]
Language: Hebrew
Size and medium: 18 leaves : paper
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/115464
Description
Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 40.
Variant titles:
Piyuṭim le-Simḥat Torah, minhag Ḳog'i. פיוטים לשמחת תורה, מנהג קוג׳י.
Pizmonim ke-minhag Ḳog'in. פזמונים למועדים כמנהג קוג׳ין.
Shirot ke-minhag ḳ.ḳ. Ḳots'in. שירות כמנהג ק"ק קוצ׳ין.
Summary:
The item contains hymns for various occasions, Shabatot and festivals many of them written by authors from Cochi or Shingli (Cranganore), but also from elsewhere. It was presented to Roth by Shabdai Samuel Koder (1907–1994) and was possibly copied specifically for Roth.
The hymns are numbered in Arabic numbers in the right margin.
Nearly all the hymns have headings indicating their respective author, and/or often also their use.
There are four footnotes with additional explanations concerning the origin and use of some hymns (see pages 1, 4, 7, 8, 25, and 32; every footnote is headed by the respective number of the hymn).
The style of the headings, and especially the footnotes is quite academic.
On the notebook’s inner back cover is a list of the beginnings of 8 poems by Yehudah ha-Levi and 7 by Avraham ibn Ezra which is headed by the explanation: בקובץ יש אתנו אלו השירים מרי״ה ומראב׳׳ע ולא ידענו אם יש השירים האלו ממקומות אחרות. The majority of the listed poems are not copied into the notebook.
Among the hymns are:
No. 1: אשר שכן בצר by Eliyahu ʿAdani (אליהו עדני) "who composed the song in honor of Daṿid ben Ya’aḳov Ḳaśṭiʾel (דוד בן יעקב קשטיאל) who build the synagogue in the town Parur (פארור) in the north of Cochin in the year 381 [1621 or 1620]" (footnote (1)) (more hymns by this author are no. 11, 27 and 29).
no. 2: ויברכו שם כבודך by Ya’aḳov (Shingly composition) (חבור שינגלי);
no. 3: עורה לבבי עורה, Shingli composition (חבור שינגלי); (more Shingly compositions are no. 4, 12, and 19);
no. 5: דרשו היש כזה by Daṿid Raḥavi, Kogin composition (חבור כוגין), to honor Mosheh Rabenu;
no. 6: יחדו גדודי כטל by Yosef Raḥavi (יוסף רחבי);
no. 9: ישרו בעיני כל by Yehudah ha-Levi (with footnote (9) relating the known story, that he and Avraham ibn Ezra travelled to Kodungallūr) (see also no. 13 and 14);
no. 10: ארבן לאלי ביום by שם טוב בן אברם בלילה;
no. 12: קול מבשר מבשר by Yosef ben Daṿid, "to recite after the encircling (הקפה) during Simḥat Torah (apparently a Shingli composition)";
no. 15: אנה אליהי ישעי by Mosheh Tsarfati (משה צרפתי) from Cochi (see also no. 16);
no. 17: דודי צח ואדום by Daṿid Shem Tov מליגואה from Cochi (see also no. 18);
no. 20: פורים היום פורים by Yitsḥaḳ Eliyah מליגואה (see also no. 21);
no. 22: נא אלי אדר by נ[פתלי] א[ליהו] רחבי (see also no. 23-26);
no. 30: לאנשי חכמה ותבונה by Lev Redeś (ליב רעדש) from Amsterdam who composed it to honor Daṿid Yeḥezḳel Raḥavi (דוד יחזקאל רחבי) for his book אוהל דוד … (551 [1781 or 1782]).
State of text: Some acidification and browning but relatively well preserved.
Bibliographical note:
Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 40. National Library of Israel (NLI), Online Catalogue, system-no. 990001856220205171. The NLI’s description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 40 made on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts of the NLI during the 1960s. The microfilm can now be downloaded in a digitised form from the NLI-webpage.
Davis, Handlist 164 (Leeds, 2005), no. 40.
Physical characteristics
Pagination: i + 16 (paginated as 1–32) + i; pagination by the copyist, center of head margin recto; the inner side of the last unpaginated leaf is ruled and used by the copyist for additional notes.
Ruling: frame-ruled in pencil (in often slightly irregular intervals; extra lines for explanatory footnotes); 17–22 ruled lines ; vertical bounding lines are drawn from head to tail.
Number of lines: 17–23 (poetic spacing).
Script: Eastern Hebrew script.
Ms.: width 145mm height 207mm
Binding
No cover; sewn along edge of spine (stab-sewing).
Vocalisation and cantillation
All liturgical parts are vocalised.
Former owners and annotations
The item was a gift from Shabdai Samuel Koder (1907–1994) to Roth;on first leaf recto: "With the compliments of S.S. Koder Jr."
It is unclear whether Koder copied the notebook himself (Roth does not note anything about the origin of the manuscript in his catalogue).
Access and usage
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