Sefer Chuppat Chatanim, piyyutim for Simchat Torah and one’s wedding day and bris milah. “Now added with some maalot tovot…a seder hakafot for Simchas Torah from the Rav HaChida in the Sefer Tziporen Shamir. And other piyyutim never before included in this book”
Printed by the brothers Moshe and Yisrael Palagi, together with Shlomo Bilforti. Livorno 1849. 132 leaves. Catalogued in the NLI’s Rare Books section. On leaf 56b, there appears:
“Seder Chuppah practiced by the Shingili community”, including the 7 days of festivities with Shabbos and minhagim and zmirot practiced there (Shingili = Kodungallur, a city in the Karala state of southwestern India, on the Malabar coast. The Shingili community was a very ancient community and very little is known about their leaders or traditions. Already by the 16th century they had moved to the adjacent Cochin; they are one of the sources of the well-known Cochin community). This text is therefore rare documentation of their wedding traditions.
Detached sheets, front binding detached, no spine, yellow page cuttings, well-preserved copy in excellent condition.
