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

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 119

(HAGADAH)

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

Edited by David Heinrich Mueller and Julius von Schlosser. Facsimile Edition. Text-Volume only. (pp. 316, 39 plates with 18 figures in color and black-and-white). Lacking Plate-Volume (containing an additional 35 plates). One of 250 Copies (?) Contemporary half-morocco, gilt. Lg. 4to Yudlov 2053; L.A. Mayer, A Bibliography of Jewish Art (1967) no.1792

Vienna: 1898

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $300

Contains considerable 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