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Or 1404

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Or 1404
Title:
Brother Hagadah
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Extent:
51 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Start Date:
1350
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1350-1374
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CE
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Names:
Avraham Ḥen
Me᾿ir ben Malakhi᾿el Ashkenazi
Mosheh ibn Keves
William Bragge
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Or 1404

'Brother Hagadah'

Contents

Hagadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite (the 'Brother Hagadah').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-50v
Title: הגדה של פסח
Title: Hagadah for Passover

The manuscript exhibits much similarity to the so-called 'Sarajevo Hagadah.'

The text of hagadah begins on folio 8r and ends on folio 22r.

On the upper and lower margins of folios 8r-18v is a brief commentary on the hagadah, written in small semi-cursive script of about the same date as the text, agreeing with Add.14762 (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. 610.).

The upper and lower margins of folios 19v-50r contain parashayot and hafṭarot for the Passover days. The hafṭarot are partly accompanied by the targum after each verse.

The manuscript includes many poetical pieces throughout, especially on folio 23v, 30v-50v.

The manuscript was called 'Brother Hagadah' by Bezalel Narkiss. The title refers to the fact that both in its iconographical features and in style, the manuscript is very similar to the Rylands Hagadah. On the Narkiss nomenclature, see Kogmann-Appel 1997, p. 452 n9.

13 full-page miniatures in geometrical frames.

ff. 1v-7v

10 textual illustrations. f. 8r, 9r, 9v, 10r, 10v, 14v, 15r, 17r, 17v, 18r

28 decorated initial-word panels with gold letters with foliate spreading to the margin. f. 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v, 10r, 10v, 11r, 11v, 12r, 12v, 13r, 13v, 14r, 16v, 17r, 17v, 18r, 18v, 19r, 19v, 20r, 20v, 21r, 21v, 22r, 27v, 29v, 30r

4 marginal illustrations with foliate, animals, hybrids, hunting scene. f. 8r, 15v, 16r, 18r)

Numerous initial words with penwork decoration.

ff. 30v-50r

8 embellished vertical bands with keywords of texts, penwork and pen-flourishing. f. 23v, 24r, 24v, 25v, 28r, 28v, 29r, 29v

Embellished vertical bands with white vine motifs and golden keywords of the text included. f. 15v, 16r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 51 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 270 × 230 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180/200 × 140/145 mm.
Foliation:

51 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the codex; remains of other foliations in the lower margin and in the upper right corner of the folios).

Collation

7 quires: i8 (folios 1-8v), ii8 (folios 9-16v), iii8 (folios 17-24v), iv8 (folios 25-32), v8 (folios 33-40), vi8 (folios 41-48), vii4-1 (folios 49-51).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 28

Written lines: 15 28

Ruling is visible.

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

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, partially punctuated (certain sections of the main text as well as the captions and texts on the upper and lower margins not punctuated).

Additions:

Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (front flyleaf (i)r).

Binding

Pre-1600. Italian white parchment, tooled.

Spine: 'Haggadah. Pesach. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1404.'

History

Origin: 1350-1374 3rd quarter of the 14th century Spain, N. E. (Catalonia)

Provenance and Acquisition

Me᾿ir ben Malakhi᾿el Ashkenazi: sold to his brother-in-law, Mosheh ibn Keves in the month of Sivan 5162 (3 May to 1 June 1402): inscribed (on a strip of vellum stuck on a paper strip pasted on folio 1r).

Avraham Ḥen, son of the nobleman R. Ya'udah, physician, son of Emanuel Ḥen the physician of the house of Shealti᾿el: inscribed with his name (folio 50v).

Purchased by the British Museum at Bragge's sale on 7-10 June 1876: inscribed (folio [i verso]); perhaps William Bragge (b. 1823, d. 1884), civil engineer and steel manufacturer.

1876-06-10

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. 606.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1969), pp. 68, 170. 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. 16; II, figs 287-305.
    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. 304.
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987), pp. 94 and 104.
    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, ‘The Picture Cycles of the Rylands Haggadah and the so-called Brother Haggadah and Their Relation to the Western Tradition of Old Testament Illustration’ Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 79, 2 (1997), 3-20.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), p. 183.
    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 n. 12).
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain. Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), pp. 91-97.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 101-2.
    Sarit Shalev-Eyni, ‘Who are the Heirs of the Hebrew Bible? Sephardic Visual Historiography in a Christian Context’ Medieval Encounters, 16 (2010), 23-63 (pp. 28-35 and 55-63).
    Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah. Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011), pp. 201-265.

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