Seder Hagadah Shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel

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 198

(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah Shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel

Title within arch surrounded by four-part floral border. Each page profusely decorated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame ff. (26). Stained, few marginal repairs. Later vellum-backed Dutch marbled boards, rubbed at extremities. Folio Yudlov 132; Yaari 82

Venice: Alvise Bragadin 1716

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

The House of Bragadin simultaneously printed three issues of this Passover Hagadah, all identical with the same layout and illustration cycle according to the custom of Aschkenaz, Rome and Spain (i.e. Ladino). All carried Judeo-Italian translation, the principle difference between them all was the Grace after Meals