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Sloane MS 3173

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Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3173
Title:
Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
40 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1740
End Date:
1740
Date Range:
1740
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Hebrew
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CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508
Sir Hans Sloane
Yosef ben David of Leipnik
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Sloane MS 3173

Hagadah shel Pesaḥ

Contents

Hagadah for Passover with the commentaries of Isaac Abravanel ('Leipnik Haggadah').

Language(s): Hebrew, Yiddish

ff. 1r-40v
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
Title: הגדה של פסח

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

Numerous miniatures in colours and gold. f. 3r, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 14r, 14v, 15r, 16r, 17v, 27r, 34r, 35r, 35v, 36r, 36v, 37r, 37v, 38r, 38v, 39r, 39v, 40r

4 decorated initial words and initial-word panels in colours. f. 4r, 10r, 21r, 25v

The Passover-night ritual, with the commentary of Isaac Abravanel, and an alegorical interpretation of the Passover ordinances.

Dated title page, 1740 (folio 1r).

Yosef ben David of Leipnik: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Hamburg-Altona, [5]500 (1740) (folio 40r).

Colophon: ע"י הפועל העוסק במלאכת זו וגם בשאר מלאכת הקודש הקטן יוסף בהר"ר דוד זצ"ל בק"ק לייפניק ע"ע בק"ק אלטונא והמבורג בשנת וה' י'וסף' ע'ל'ינו בר'כה אל'ף' פעמים ככה לפרט קטן. f. 40r

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 40 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 350 × 255 mm.
Dimensions (written): 250 × 170 mm.
Foliation:

40 folios (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation

11 quires: i-ii4-1 (folios 1-6), iii2 (folios 7-8), iv-xi4 (folios 9-40).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 10 60

Written lines: 10 60

Ruling and sometimes pricking are visible.

Watermark, folio 41v, of a fleur-de-lis, unidentified.

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

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi punctuated square and unpunctuated semi-cursive script.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled.

History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

Sir Hans Sloane: baronet, physician and collector (b. 1660, d. 1753): in his collection; acquired by the British Museum in 1753. English inscription citing the Catalogue of the Sloane Manuscripts (on a paper slip glued to folio 41v).

Note by Frederic Madden: "See another copy of this work, similarly written and ornamented, MS Add. 18724. F.M." (folio 41v).

1753

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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_3173 (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. 612.
    A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, hitherto undescribed ... including the collections by Sir Hans Sloane, the Rev. Thomas Birch, etc. By S. Ayscough, 2 vols (London, 1782), I, p. 51.
    Cecil Roth, Jewish Art: An Illustrated History (London: W. H. Allen, 1961), p. 446.
    Kurt Schubert, 'Die Weisen von Bne Braq in der Haggadaillustration des 18. Jahrhunderts', Artibus et Historiae 9 (1988), 71-81 (pp. 72, 75).
    Iris Fishof, Ju¨dische Buchmalerei in Hamburg und Altona: zur Geschichte der Illumination hebra¨ischer Handschriften im 18. Jahrhundert (Hamburg: Christians, 1999), pp. 38-40.
    Leon Prager and Brad Sabin Hill, 'Yiddish Manuscripts in the British Library', The British Library Journal 21 (1995), 81-108 (pp. 86, 103).
    Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 140-41.

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