Die Haggadah von Sarajevo. Eine Spanisch-Juedische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 175

(HAGADAH)

Die Haggadah von Sarajevo. Eine Spanisch-Juedische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters

Edited by David Heinrich Mueller and Julius von Schlosser. Facsimile Edition. Two parts: Text (316pp., 38 plates and 18 figures in color and black-and-white). * And Plates (35 pl.) Both parts bound in one volume. One of 250 Copies Contemporary half-calf, lacking spine. Lg. 4to Yudlov 2053; L.A. Mayer, A Bibliography of Jewish Art (1967) no.1792

Vienna: A. Holzhausen 1898

Est: $800 - $1,000

This extraordinarily rich manuscript originated in Barcelona around 1350 and is the oldest surviving Sephardic Haggadah in the world. This very first facsimile and and outstanding study of the Sarajevo Hagadah by Mueller and Schlosser contains considerable information on illuminated Hagadah manuscripts as a whole. Its’ publication “for the first time focused attention on this particular expression of art among the Jews.” See A. Marx, Jewish Quarterly Review New Series (1928) Vol. XIX. The original Sarajevo Hagadah was purchased by the Sarajevo National Museum (presently known as National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina) when, in 1894, a young child of the city’s Sephardi Community brought the manuscript to school to show his teacher. Until which time the manuscript had never been viewed outside of the child’s family