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Title:
Hagadah
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
93 folios
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Languages:
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Start Date:
1275
End Date:
1324
Date Range:
1275-1324
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CE
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Names:
Hayim Horowitz
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Or 2737

Hagadah

Contents

Hagadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite (the 'Hispano-Moresque Hagadah').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-93v
Title: הגדה של פסח
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ

After the Halel section are the two alphabetical pieces, on folio 32v and 33v respectively.

On folio 36r begins the targumic paraphrase of Be-shalaḥ; the alphabetical piece Azil Mosheh begins on folio 42v; the targumic paraphrase of Ex. 19 opens on folio 49v; the beginning of the Ten Commandments on folio 53v.

The Hafṭarot for the Passover are written in the upper and lower margins of folio 4v-33r, in a small semi-cursive script. The targum is added after each verse, except in 2Sam. 22.

Picture cycle of 63 full-page miniatures with coloured washes.

ff. 62v-93v

2 full-page miniatures at the beginning and at the end of the text of the Haggadah. f. 1r, 35v

5 textual illustrations. f. 9v, 20v, 21r, 22r, 22v

Numerous decorated initial-word panels with gold letters.

Embellished vertical band with keywords of texts on two folios. f. 18v, 19r

Numerous rubrics.

ff. 1v-6r
Title: Introduction
ff. 6r-46v
Title: Hagadah

The commentary starts on folio f. 6v .

Physical Description

Parchment codex of last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century, c. 1300.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 93 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90/95 × 60/65 mm.
Foliation:

93 folios (+ an unfoliated leaf after folio 3, three modern paper flyleaves and a parchment flyleaf from before 1884 at the beginning, and a parchment flyleaf, an older paper flyleaf, and three modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

13 quires: i4 (folios 1-3*), ii8 (folios 4-11), iii8 (folios 12-19), iv6 (folios 20-25), v8 (folios 26-33), vi8 (folios 34-41), vii8 (folios 42-49), viii8 (folios 50-57), ix6 (folios 58-63), x6 (folios 64-69), xi8 (folios 70-77), xii8-1 (folios 78-84), xiii10-1 (folios 85-93).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 12

Written lines: 12

Hard-point ruling is visible.

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

Has many illuminations and illustrations, which consist mainly of gold and coloured letters and designs.

Some parts of the text are written in red ink.

Hand(s)

Sephardi square script, punctuated, of the last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century, c. 1300.

Binding

Post-1600. Black leather.

Spine: 'Haggada. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2737.'

History

Origin: 1275-1324 Last quarter of the 13th-1st half of the 14th century Spain, C. (>Castile)

Provenance and Acquisition

Hayim Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (paper flyleaf of the back binding).

1884-01-26

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2737 (digital images currently unavailable)

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. 609.
    Mendel Metzger, ‘Two Fragments of a Spanish XIVth Century Haggadah,’ Gesta, 6 (1967), pp. 25-34.
    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. 9; II, figs 79-104.
    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.
    Yael Zirlin, 'The Schocken Italian Haggadah of c. 1400 and Its Origins', Jewish Art, 12/13 (1986/87), 54-72 (pp. 63-72).
    Joseph Gutmann, 'The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval Jewish Art' Artibus et Historiae 8 (1987), 67-89 (pp. 74, 85).
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), pp. 94-95.
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 90-93.
    Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 160 [exhibition catalogue].

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