Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah...aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert

AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 171
(HAGADAH)

Die Darmstadter Pessach-Haggadah...aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert

ONE OF ONLY 15 NUMBERED COPIES. Facsimile Edition. Full calf elaborately blind-tooled with brass corner- and centre-pieces, clasps (one lacking) and hinges. Colophon leaf laid in Colophon marked, final blanks with markings, loose. Original blind-tooled calf antique, upper cover detached, scuffed. Folio Yudlov 3094; Yaari 2064; Mayer 1147 (who fails to note this particular edition)

Leipzig: 1928

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,750
A rare and quite remarkable facsimile issued in just 15 copies, of an exceptional medieval Hagadah. The binding replicates that of the original manuscript Hagadah: See also Lot 177