Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. With commentary Tzeli Esh, R. Judah Modena's abridgment of Don Isaac Abrabanel's commentary Zevach Pesach

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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(HAGADAH)

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. With commentary Tzeli Esh, R. Judah Modena's abridgment of Don Isaac Abrabanel's commentary Zevach Pesach

Title within arch surrounded by 4-part typographic border, each page profusely illustrated within architectural border. On title, signatures of former owner, "Hezekiah Shabthai Morpurgo." ff. 26. Browned, some marginal loss of text due to close cropping. Later vellum. Folio Yudlov 131; Yaari 81

Venice: for Alvise Bragadin 1716

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,900

The Morpurgos were an illustrious Northern Italian Jewish family, hailing originally from Marburg, Germany, as the name indicates. Members of the family were financiers, poets and scholars. See Chosen: Philadelphia's Great Hebraica (2007), p. 49, no. 35