(Hagadah shel Pesach). Hebrew in square letters provided with vowel points, Judeo-German translation in Wayber-taytsch letters.
AUCTION 63 |
Thursday, November 13th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 92
(HAGADAH).
(Hagadah shel Pesach). Hebrew in square letters provided with vowel points, Judeo-German translation in Wayber-taytsch letters.
(Prague): (Mid-later half of the 17th century)
Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $850
Two leaves from an otherwise unknown edition of the Passover Hagadah. The type of letters and illustrations found in these two leaves are similar to Hagadoth published by the House of Bak in 17th century Prague. However, a closer examination of the exact style of the letters indicates that these two leaves are different from these versions. For example, Yudlov 69 describes a Hagadah published in Prague after 1665 (now in the Valmadonna Collection). Originally Prof. Chimen Abramsky wrote in the introduction to the facsimile reproduction (Verona, 1978) that it was published between 1590-1606. However, C. Shmeruk in his learned article in Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 1984, pp.47-48 proved that it was actually published after 1665 based upon the illustrations which were previously used in other books.
Pages from another similar type of Hagadah with Yiddish Wayber-taytsch were described by Erika Timm in “Yiddish Literature in a Franconian Genizah (Jerusalem