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Title:
Golden Hagadah
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101 folios
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Start Date:
1320
End Date:
1330
Date Range:
1320-1330
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CE
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Names:
Camillo Jaghel
Fra. Luigi da Bologna
Giuseppe Almanzi
Renato da Modena
Yo᾿av Gallico
῾Azaryah Tsedeḳiyah Ḥayim Ashkenazi
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'Golden Hagadah'

Contents

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Golden Hagadah').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-101v
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Title: הגדה של פסח

14 full-page miniatures in colours and gold.

ff. 2v-15r

2 textual illustrations. f. 44v, 45v

26 marginal illustrations. f. 16v, 22v, 23r, 26v, 27r, 28r, 32v, 42r, 42v, 43r, 43v, 46r, 47r, 50r, 55r, 56v, 61r, 62r, 66r, 66v, 67r, 67v, 68r, 78v, 83r, 85r

Embellished vertical band between the two text columns. f. 22v, 23r, 55r, 56r, 61r, 66v, 67r, 67v, 68r, 68v, 70v, 73r, 78v, 78v, 85r

36 initial-word panels in gold, many with foliate decoration in colours. f. 16v, 22v, 24v, 26v, 27r, 30v, 31v, 32v, 33v, 41v, 44v, 47r, 50r, 51r, 53r, 55v, 56v, 57v, 59v, 61r, 65v, 66r, 66v, 67r, 67v, 68r, 68v, 70v, 73r, 73v, 78v, 82r, 83r, 85r, 86r, 87r

f. 31v, 34v, 36v, 38r, 40v 5 initial-words with zoomorphic letters.

Numerous initial words in gold and, silver and in colours.

One decorated title page. (Added in the 17th century. All the seventeenth-century decorations were painted on blank pages of the fourteenth-century codex.) f. 2r

One heraldic deivce. (Added in the 17th century. All the seventeenth-century decorations were painted on blank pages of the fourteenth-century codex.) f. 16r

13 full borders decorated with leaves on the reverse side of the full-page miniatures framing a mnemonic poem on the laws of Passover. (Added in the 17th century. All the seventeenth-century decorations were painted on blank pages of the fourteenth-century codex.)

ff. 3v-15v

One full border decorated with leaves. (Added in the 17th century. All the seventeenth-century decorations were painted on blank pages of the fourteenth-century codex.) f. 24r

The illuminations of the text consist mainly in the gold, silver, and occasionally coloured letters of first and striking words, placed within coloured designs.

Bears many censors' erasures.

ff. 1r-16r
Title: Illustriations

The illustrations consist of coloured miniatures on gold ground, each page being divided into four equal compartments, with a separate picture in each.

The history illustrated is that of Genesis and the earlier portion of Exodus.

ff. 16v-21v
Title: Poetical pieces
ff. 22r-23v
Title: Lel shemurim

Followed by a poetical piece.

ff. 24v-55v
Title: Hagadah
ff. 56v-101v
Title: Liturgical pieces

Contain pieces accompanying the order of Passover service.

Physical Description

Vellum and paper codex of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Extent: 101 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 190/200 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155/175 × 130/150 mm.
Foliation:

101 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the end); folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

13 quires: i10-1 (folios 2-10), ii6-1 (folios 11-15), iii-xii8 (folios 16-95), xiii6 (folios 96-101).

No catchwords.

Margins are too closely cut.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10 26

Written lines: 10 26

Uniform codex.

The codex is called the Golden Haggadah because of the diapered gold-leaf background of its miniatures.

Ruling is visible.

Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are distinguishable.

Erased text (e. g. folios 81r, 83r, 86r, 86v, 87r, 90v, 94v, 95r, 97r).

Many illustrations, which consist mainly of gold, silver, and occasionally coloured letters of first and striking words, placed within coloured designs.

Hand(s)

Sephardic square script, partially punctuated, of 14th (for the main part) and 17th century.

Additions:

Folios 3v-16r are 17th century additions.

Folio 2r is a roughly illuminated title-page from the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather Morocco binding, blind tooled, remains of clasps.

History

Origin: 1320-1330 Later additions: 1st part of the 17th century. Spain, N. E., Catalonia (Barcelona?) (for the main part) and Italy (for the later additions)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fra Luigi da Bologna: censor's signature, Bologna, February 1599 (101v); [Popper_1969] 104 and appendix § 112-117.

Rabbi Yo᾿av Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliyahu', son of Menaḥem Rava in 1602: inscribed on his added title page (folio 2r).

The armorial device of the Gallico and Rava families, added at Carpi in 1602 (folio 16r).

Camillo Jaghel: censor's signature, 1613 (folio 101v); see [Popper_1969] 50-56.

Renato da Modena: censor's signature, 1626 (folio 101v); see [Popper_1969] 132-133.

῾Azaryah Tsedeḳiyah Ḥayim Ashkenazi: birth entry on 22 January 1689 (folio 1r).

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 328; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see [Paisey_1997] 131-153).

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. 607.
    Samuele Davide Luzzatto, Giuseppe Almanzi, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de littérature hébraïque et orientale de feu Mr Joseph Almanzi (Padua: Antoine Bianchi, 1864), p. 39 (in the Hebrew part).
    Pedro Bohigas, La Ilustración y la Decoratión del Libro Manuscrito en Cataluña: Período Gótico y Renacimiento, 2 vols (Barcelona: Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona, 1965-1967), I, 68-70, figs. 25, 26.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan, 1969), p. 56.
    Bezalel Narkiss, The Golden Haggadah: A Fourteenth-century Illuminated Hebrew Manuscript in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1970) [facsimile].
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), pp. 60-63.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles: a Catalogue Raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 11; II, figs 123-54.
    The´re`se 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. 304.
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987). Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Die Modelle des Exoduszyklus der Goldenen Haggada (London, British Library, Add. 27210)', in Judentum - Ausblicke und Einsichten: Festgabe für Kurt Schubert, ed. by Clemens Thoma, Günter Stemberger, and Johann Maier (Frankfurt: P. Lang, 1993), 269-99.
    Bezalel Narkiss, The Golden Haggadah (London: British Library, 1997) [partial facsimile].
    Marc Michael Epstein, Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), pp. 16-17.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, ‘The Sephardic Picture Cycles and the Rabbinic Tradition: Continuity and Innovation in Jewish Iconography’, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 60 (1997), 451-82.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, ‘Coping with Christian Pictorial Sources: What Did Jewish Miniaturists Not Paint?’ Speculum, 75 (2000), 816-58.
    Marc Michael Epstein, 'Another Flight into Egypt: Confluence, Coincidence, the Cross-cultural Dialectics of Messianism and Iconographic Appropriation in Medieval Jewish and Christian Culture.', in Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other; Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, ed. by Eva Frojmovic (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 33-52.
    Julie Harris, 'Polemical Images in the Golden Haggadah (British Library Add. MS 27210)', Medieval Encounters, 8 (2002), 105-22.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), pp. 179-85.
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, 'Jerusalem and the Temple in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts: Jewish Thought and Christian Influence', in L'interculturalita dell'ebraismo a cura di Mauro Perani (Ravenna: Longo, 2004), pp. 173-91.
    Julie A. Harris, 'Good Jews, Bad Jews, and No Jews at All: Ritual Imagery and Social Standards in the Catalan Haggadot', in Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams, ed. by Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 26 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 275-96 (p. 279, fig. 6).
    La miniatura medieval en la Península Ibérica, ed. by Joaquín Yarza Luaces (Murcia: Nausícaä, 2007), p. 135-36, fig. 8.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain. Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), pp. 47-88.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 94-97.
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    Vivian B. Mann, 'Jews and Altarpeices in Medieval Spain', in Uneasy communion: Jews, Christians, and the altarpieces of medieval Spain, ed. by Vivian B. Mann London: Giles, 2010), pp. 112-15.
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Bibliography

    [Popper_1969] William Popper. 'The Censorship of Hebrew Books ... Introduction by Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger.'New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969.
    [Paisey_1997] Paisey, D. “Adolphus Asher (1800-1853): Berlin bookseller, Anglophile, and friend to Panizzi.” British Library Journal 23 (1997).

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