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Title:
Hagadah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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55 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1740
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
1740
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CE
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Names:
Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Adolphus Asher
Yaʿaḳov Sofer ben Yudah Loev
Zelig Shelomoh Zalman ha-Kohen
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Add MS 18724

Hagadah

Contents

Summary of Contents: Hagadah for Passover with the commentaries of Isaac Abravanel, and an allegorical interpretation of the Passover ordinances.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-55v
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Title: הגדה של פסח

1 illustrated title page in colours and gold. f. 1r

18 miniatures in colours and gold. f. 2v, 6v, 7v, 9r, 10r, 11v, 12v, 13v, 15v, 16r, 16v, 17r, 19v, 21r, 21v, 34v, 47r, 54r

4 historiated initials. f. 2r, 4r, 4v

6 decorated initial-words and initial-word panels in ink and gold. f. 5r, 33r, 46r, 49r, 51v

Contains the liturgy according to both Ashkenazi and Sefardi rites.

The rubrical directions are given both in German and Spanish, the semi-cursive script being used in each.

See Fishof 1987, pp. 83-94; Schubert 1988, p.75; Schrijver 1990, pp. 24-62; Prager and Hill 1995, 81-108; Fishof 1999, p. 352; Tahan 2007, 142-143.

Colophon: ע"י הכותב והעוסק במלאכת הקדוש נאו' הקטן יאקב במהרי"ל זצ"ל מברלין: לע"ע סופר סת"ם ב'ק'ק' המבורג באלטונא יע"א בשנת ת"קלפק.
Author: Abravanel, Isaac אברבנאל, יצחק בן יהודה
ff. 1r-26v
Title: Perush ʿal-pi ha-sod

A mystical interpretation of hagadah.

ff. 26v-30r
Title: Seder birkat ha-mazon ke-minhag ashkenazim

Accompanied with Yiddish rendering.

ff. 30r-45r
Title: Seder birkat ha-mazon ke-minhag sefardim

Accompanied with Yiddish rendering.

ff. 45r-55v
Title: Remazim le-mitsvot shel Pesaḥ

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 55 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 165 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 105 mm.
Foliation:

55 folios (+ 3 modern and 1 older unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end); folio 55 is a foliated paper flyleaf.

Collation

26 quires: i4-2 (folios 1-2), ii-xii2 (folios 3-24), xiii4-1 (folios 25-27), xiv-xvii2 (folios 28-35), xviii4-1 (folios 36-38), xix-xxvi2 (folios 39-54).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10 30

Written lines: 10 30

Pricking and ruling are visible.

Watermark, iv recto, of a fleur-de-lis and the monogram 'B. W'. Watermark, [56], of the words 'Budgen & Willmott'.

The square and semi-cursive scripts are imitations of the Amsterdam letters and Rashi script respectively used in printing.

Many marginal illuminations and illustrations, which consist mainly of gold and coloured designs.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi punctuated square and unpunctuated semi-cursive script. Yaʿaḳov Sofer ben Yudah Loev of Berlin, inscribed with his name on the title page and in the colophon, Hamburg and Altona [5]500 (1740) (folios 1r, 54v).

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather with gold-tooled.

History

Origin: 1740 Germany, N. (Hamburg, Altona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Owners' notes, folios 54v-55r.

Zelig Shelomoh Zalman ha-Kohen of Brandenburg: mentioned in the colophon (folio 54v).

A note by Frederic Madden: 'See another and finer copy of this work in MS Sloane 3173' (folio 55v).

Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853 (see Paisey, D., 'Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi' British Library Journal 12 (1997), pp. 131-153): purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 July 1851: inscribed (folio 55v).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 611.
    Leon Prager and Brad Sabin Hill, 'Yiddish Manuscripts in the British Library', The British Library Journal, 21 (1995), 81-108 (pp. 85-86, 102).
    Kurt Schubert, 'Die Weisen von Bne Braq in der Haggadaillustration des 18. Jahrhunderts', Artibus et Historiae, 9 (1988), 71-81 (p. 75).
    Iris Fishof, 'Yacob Sofer mi-Berlin: A Portrait of a Jewish Scribe', Israel Museum Journal, 6 (1987), 83-94.
    Emile G. L. Schrijver, 'Be'otiot Amsterdam'. Eighteenth-century Hebrew Manuscript Production in Central Europe: The Case of Jacob ben Judah Leib Shamash', Quaerendo, 20 (1990), 24-62.
    Iris Fishof, Ju¨dische Buchmalerei in Hamburg und Altona: zur Geschichte der Illumination hebra¨ischer Handschriften im 18. Jahrhundert (Hamburg: Christians, 1999), p. 352.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 142-43.

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