Hagadah shel Pessach. Instructions in Judeo-German printed in Wayber-taytsch type

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00
Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 197
(HAGADAH)

Hagadah shel Pessach. Instructions in Judeo-German printed in Wayber-taytsch type

Blank spaces beneath illustration captions ff. (11, of 18), lacking title, ff.2-6 & 18. Browned, stained in places, neat marginal repairs. Modern maroon morocco-backed marbled boards. Folio cf. Vinograd, Prague 764; Yudlov 125; Yaari 78

(Prague: n.p. 1713) ?

Est: $2,500 - $3,000
A Hagadah fragment with Prague style typography. Yudlov records this apparent edition complete with copper-plate illustrations. This copy has the captions for the traditional Venice-style copper plate Hagadah illustrations, but with blank spaces where the plates would have been placed. This. therefore, would seem to be a mutant copy, with the plates erroneously or otherwise omitted