Die Haggadah von Sarajevo. Eine Spanisch-Juedische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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(HAGADAH).

Die Haggadah von Sarajevo. Eine Spanisch-Juedische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters

Edited by David Heinrich Mueller and Julius von Schlosser. Facsimile Edition. Two volumes, text (316pp., 39 plates and 18 figures in color and black-and-white) and plates (35 pl.) One of 250 Copies (?) Original wrappers, dust-jackets, gutter split in first volume, modern solander case, lg. 4to Wiener 77; L.A. Mayer, A Bibliography of Jewish Art (1967) no.1792

Vienna: 1898

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

Contains a great amount of information on illuminated Hagadah manuscripts. Indeed, the publication of Mueller and Schlosser’s outstanding study of this extraordinarily rich manuscript “for the first time focused attention on this expression of art among the Jews.” A. Marx, JQR - New Series (1928) vol. XIX. Apparently the Hagadah was purchased by the Sarajevo National Museum when, in 1894, a child of the city’s Sephardi Community brought it to school to be sold after his father had died leaving the family destitute