Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Spanish rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). Accompanied by Leone Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.”

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 104
(HAGADAH )

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Spanish rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). Accompanied by Leone Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.”

Title in red and black with textual and typographic borders. Each page profusely illustrated all within ornamental border ff. [24]. Some staining. Modern vellum-backed marbled boards. Folio Yudlov 189; Yaari 117

Venice: Vendramin 1740

Est: $7,000 - $9,000
PRICE REALIZED $7,500
DESPITE TYPICAL WINE-STAINS, AN EXCEPTIONAL WIDE-MARGINED COPY IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION The publishers simultaneously printed three issues of this Passover Hagadah, all identical with the same layout and illustration cycle - differing only in choice of vernacular translation: Yiddish, Judeo-Italian and Spanish, i.e. Ladino. The Ladino issue is particularly rare; very few 18th century Hagadoth appeared with Ladino translation at all. This copy contains the rare, variant colophon of 1739 as in N. Ben Menachem’s copy as noted by Yudlov