[Toldot yehude Ḳutsin]
By: Yiḥya ben Avraham ʹSaraph ha-Levi
Contributors: Halllegua, Yosef; Reḥavi, Yeḥezḳel; Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University. Libraries)
Published: 1781
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: heb
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Jews; Early works to 1800; History; Social life and customs; Judaism; Customs and practices; Ethnic relations; Hebrew Manuscripts
Description: The history of the white and black jews of Malabar by Yiḥya ben Avraham ʹSaraph ha-Levi of Bagdad. The text is based on Yosef Halllegua's Kutonet Yosef. Yosef Halllegua was the son-in-law of Yeḥezḳel Reḥavi, a leader of the Jewish community of Malabar (died in 1771).
Notes: Manuscript written on parchment in Rabbinic square script.

The scroll is mounted on a wooden handle, like an Esther scroll.

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For more about the text see W.J. Fischel, Yetsiratam Ha-Safrutit shel Yehude Ḳutsin Shebe-ḥof Malabar, Erets Yiʹsrael 10 (1971), 221-225

See also H. Loewe, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hebrew Character, Cambridge 1926, p. 141, no. 150

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1936 M-1936 Plimpton, George A. Bequest.

Vocalized Hebrew; Rabbinic square script.

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