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Title:
Ashkenazi Hagadah
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49 folios
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Start Date:
1430
End Date:
1470
Date Range:
1430-1470
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Names:
Eleazar ben Judah of Worms
Yaʿaḳov  Matatyah
Yoʾel ben Shimʻon Feibush
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'Ashkenazi Hagadah'

Contents

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Hagadah').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-49v
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Title: הגדה של פסח

19 miniatures in the margin in colours and gold. f. 1v, 2r, 2v, 4r, 4v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8v, 9r, 9v, 11v, 12v, 14r, 14v, 15r, 22r, 22v, 31r

23 decorated initial-word panels and initials, and one historiated initial-word panel. f. 1v, 3r, 3v, 4v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8r, 8v, 12v, 13r, 13v, 19r, 23v, 25r, 31r, 33r, 35r, 39r, 43r, 45r, 46v, 37v

The ten plagues in medallions in the margin. f. 17r

Numerous colored initials and initial words.

Commentary in the margin shaped as carmina figurata in ink and colours, on 19 pages. f. 8r, 8v, 9r, 10r, 10v, 11r, 12r, 12v, 13r, 14r, 14v, 15v, 16r, 18r, 21v, 23v, 24v, 32r, 32v

f. 13v one marginal decoration with foliate inhabited by animals and birds.

One partial border with floral decoration. f. 6r

Hagadah of the German rite, with commentaries by Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, see folios 9r, 17v, 26v.

Colophon: יעצני לבי להשיב לשו-אל ויאמר מי צייר את-אל אענהו אני הוא וייבש הנרשם יו-אל לר' יעקב מתתיה שי' עולם בן מה'ר'ז' איש-לאל f. 48v
ff. 1r-6r
Title: Introduction
ff. 6r-46v
Title: Hagadah

The commentary starts on folio f. 6v .

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the mid-15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 49 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 375 × 275 mm.
Dimensions (written): 215 × 135/145 mm.
Foliation:

49 folios (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

6 quires: i-v8(folios 1-40), vi8+1(folios 41-49).

No catchwords, but at the end of each quire the first word of the following quire is written in a truncated form.

Condition

Slightly damaged by damp.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Ruling is visible.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are not distinguishable.

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

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, main text punctuated, commentary not punctuated, of mid-15th century. Yoʾel ben Shimʻon Feibush, illuminator: inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio 48v).

Additions:

Binding

Pre-1600, contemporary. Dark brown leather, blind tooled, with remains of clasps.

History

Origin: 1430-1470 Germany, S. (Ulm?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Yaʿaḳov  Matatyah: mentioned in the colophon (folio 48v).

Purchased by Payne & Foss, April 1844.

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

    Michael Footner, 'Joel ben Simeon Illuminator of Hebrew MSS. in the XVth Century', The Jewish Quarterly Review, 27 (1937), 217-32.
    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), II, no. 610.
    Otto Kurz, 'A Copy after the Master E. S. on a Jewish Bookbinding,' Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 24 (1965), 3-11.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 124.
    Joseph Gutmann, 'Thirteen Manuscripts in Search of Author: Joel Ben Simeon, 15th Century Scribe-Artist', Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 9 (1970), 76-95.
    Malachi Beit-Arie, 'Joel ben Simeon’s Manuscripts: a Codicologer’s View', Journal of Jewish Art, 3-4 (1977), 25-39 (pp. 32-34).
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), pp. 102-3.
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    Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 303.
    The Ashkenazi Haggadah: a Hebrew Manuscript of the Mid-15th Century From the Collections of the British Library, notes on the illuminations, transcription and English translation by David Goldstein (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985) [facsimile].
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    Yael Zirlin, 'Joel Meets Johannes: a Fifteenth-century Jewish-Christian Collaboration in Manuscript iIlumination', Viator, 26 (1995), 265-82.
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    Yael Zirlin, ‘Celui qui se cache derrière l’image : colophons d’enlumineurs dans les manuscrits hébraïques', Revue des Etudes Juives, 155 (1997), 33-52 (p. 44).
    Evelyn M. Cohen, Joel ben Simeon Revisited: Reflections of the Scribe’s Artistic Repertoire in a Cinquecento Haggadah, in A Crown for a King; Studies in Jewish Art, History and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser, ed. by Shalom Sabar, Steven Fine, and William M. Kramer (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000), pp. 59-71.
    Susan Nashman Fraiman, 'The Marginal Images of a Marginal People', in The Metamorphosis of Marginal Images; from Antiquity to Present Time, ed. by Nurith Kenaan-Kedar and Asher Ovadiah (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2001, pp. 103-118.
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    David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel, The Washington Haggadah Copied and Illustrated by Joel ben Simeon (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 74-85.

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