Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and “Bi’urim” (synopses of commentaries of Ma’aseh Hashem, Mateh Aharon and Chevel B’nei Yehudah). Instructions in both Judeo-Español and Judeo-German.
AUCTION 64 |
Thursday, March 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art
Lot 106
(HAGADAH).
Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Isaac Abrabanel and “Bi’urim” (synopses of commentaries of Ma’aseh Hashem, Mateh Aharon and Chevel B’nei Yehudah). Instructions in both Judeo-Español and Judeo-German.
Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1712
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
<<The Second Illustrated Amsterdam Hagadah.>>
Changes were undertaken in producing this Amsterdam 1712 edition following the first Amsterdam edition (1695). Most significantly, this included the addition of two series of vignettes in the style of the earlier Venetian Hagadah (namely, the various stages of the Seder on f.2r. and the Ten Plagues on f. 13r).
The marvelous Hebrew map of the Land of Israel sets North with “Sidon” (today Lebanon) at the extreme left, and South with the Reed Sea at the extreme right. There are many added frills (right to left): Pharaoh riding a crocodile; the 42 encampments of the Israelites in the wilderness; Jonah thrown overboard to quiet the tempest; King Hiram of Tyre’s fleet of rafts wending their way to the port of Jaffa; the eagle’s wings which airlifted the Children of Israel out of Egypt; and finally, the “milk and honey” of the Promised Land. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth in: Aresheth, Vol. II pp. 22-4.