Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. With translation into Judeo-Italian and abbreviated commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. Final leaf contains poetic Judeo-German translation of “Adir Hu”, ”Almechtiger Gott”

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Lot 111
(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. With translation into Judeo-Italian and abbreviated commentary by Isaac Abrabanel. Final leaf contains poetic Judeo-German translation of “Adir Hu”, ”Almechtiger Gott”

Title in red and black with textual and typographic borders. Each page profusely illustrated all within architectural border ff. (26). Margins frayed, with some tears, staining and browning. Unbound, loose in contemporary marbled limp wrappers. Folio Yudlov 188; Yaari 116

Venice: Vendramin 1740

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,400
Although the title states that it was translated “Belashon Ashkenazim” (Judeo-German), both Yaari and Yudlov note that it is actually Judeo-Italian. The commentary found in this Hagadah, “Tzeli Esh,” is an abbreviated version of Don Isaac Abrabanel’s voluminous commentary “Zevach Pesach,” edited by Leon de Modena