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Or 2884
Title:
Sister 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:
64 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1325
End Date:
1374
Date Range:
1325-1374
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CE
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Names:
Eugen von Miller
Vergane Pietro
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2884

'Sister Hagadah'

Contents

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Sister Hagadah').

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1v-64v
Title: הגדה של פסח
Title: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ

34 full-page miniatures with captions.

ff. 1v-18r

11 textual illustrations. f. 27v, 32v, 34v, 35v, 36r, 36v, 41v, 50v, 51v, 52r, 61r

39 decorated initial-word panels with gold or silver letters and foliate spreading to the margins. f. 19v, 20r, 23r, 27v, 28r, 29r, 32v, 33r, 33v, 34r, 34v, 35r, 35v, 36r, 37r, 38v, 41v, 42v, 43r, 44r, 45r, 45v, 46r, 46v, 47v, 48r, 50r, 50v, 51v, 52r, 53r, 53v, 54v, 57r, 58r, 59v, 60v, 61r, 62v

One fulll border. f. 27v

11 marginal decorations with foliate, sometimes with dragons, hybrids. f. 19v, 35r, 41r, 47v, 48v, 49r, 49v, 55r, 57r, 60v, 63r

37 initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing. f. 20v, 21r, 21v, 22r, 22v, 23v, 24r, 25r, 26r, 26v, 27v, 30v, 34r, 35v, 36v, 37r, 37v, 39r, 39v, 40r, 40v, 41r, 42r, 43v, 44r, 44v, 45r, 46v, 48v, 49r, 49v, 52v, 55r, 58v, 60r, 62v, 63r

Embellished bands with foliate motifs on two folios. f. 45v, 63r

The text of Hagadah is preceded by a large number of pictorial sketches in illustration of Genesis and the earlier portions of Exodus.

The name 'Sister Hagadah' was coined by Bezalel Narkiss, and it refers to the fact that in the choice of the scenes as well as in iconography, it is very similar to the 'Golden Hagadah'.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 64 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 190 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 120 mm.
Foliation:

64 folios (+ one unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end; there are two systems of foliation, one running from left to right and one running from right to left. The references according to the one from right to left.)

Collation

9 quires: i8 (folios 1-8), ii8 (folios 9-16), iii2 (folios 17-18), iv-viii8 (folios 19-58), ix6 (folios 59-64).

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 6 20

Written lines: 6 20

Ruling is visible.

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

Watermark on front and back flyleafs, of a hexagonal star, unidentified.

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script, main text punctuated, captions and instructions for the Seder not punctuated.

Additions:

A handwritten note on paper, stuck onto the back pastedown: ‘Le pitture rappresentareo I fatti principali delle Genesi e dell'Estudo fino al passaggio del Mar Rosso compito; li ultimi tre se referiscono ni riti Pasquali Ebraici, e il tuto alla fine del MS. contiene il Rituale della Pasqua delgi Ebrei.’

Binding

Pre-1600. White parchment binding.

History

Origin: 1325-1374 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century Spain, N.E., Catalonia (Barcelona)

Provenance and Acquisition

Vergane Pietro: inscribed with his name in pencil (f. 1r).

Eugen von Miller: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 June 1885 (inscription on back flyleaf (ii)v).

1885-06-13

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

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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. 608.
    Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan 1969), pp. 22, 58.
    Ursula Schubert, 'Die Erschaffung Adams in einer spanischen Haggadah-Handschrift des 14. Jahrhunderts (Br. Mus. Or.2884) und ihre spätantike jüdische Bildvorlage,' Kairos 28 (1976), 213-17.
    Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), p. 18, nos. 26, 33. 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. 12; II, figs 155-208.
    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.
    Mira Friedman, 'A Jewish Motif of the Creation of Man', in Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, vol. II (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986), pp. 1-7.
    Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987). Evelyn C. Cohen, 'The "Sister Haggadah" and Its "Poor Relation"', Proceedings of the Eleventh Journal of World Congress of Jewish Studies, D2 (1994), 17-24.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'The Sephardic Picture Cycles and the Rabbinic Tradition: Continuity and Innovation in Jewish Iconography', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 60 (1997), 451-81.
    Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Coping with Christian Pictorial Sources: What Did Jewish Miniaturists Not Paint?' Speculum 75 (2000), 816-58.
    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. 1).
    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. 98-100.
    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. 105-6.
    Zsofia Buda, 'Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art', in Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation (CEU Medievalia), ed. by Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 117-134.

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