Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to the rite of Rome

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 59

(HAGADAH).

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to the rite of Rome

Hebrew text center flanked by Judeo-Italian on both sides. Both Hebrew and Judeo-Italian texts vocalized. Aschkenazi hymn “Allmächtiger Gott nun bau dayn Tempel” (Adir Hu) on final page in wayber-taytsch letters with inscription of censor: “Visto per me Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto 1617” (see Wm Poppers, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. III, no. 7). Historiated initials, replete with woodcut illustrations throughout ff. (24). Paper repairs with marginal loss in places, usual stains. Modern salmon blind-tooled morocco. Folio Yudlov 47; Yaari 37

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1609

Est: $7,000 - $9,000

PRICE REALIZED $15,000

A LANDMARK IN EVOLUTION OF THE HAGADAH DESIGN. The title-page exalts “So beautiful [is this Hagadah] the eye will never have its fill of beholding it...Why tell more? See for yourselves!” This edition represents a landmark in the evolution of Hagadah illustration. While some of the artistic themes are not necessarily new, Yerushalmi (pl. 44-48) vouches for the particular novelty of certain depictions, viz: the Simanei ha-Seder on f.2r and the Ten Plagues on f.10r. Di Gara produced three issues of this Hagadah: Judeo-Italian, Judeo-German (Yiddish) and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)