Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-German. Accompanied by Leone Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.”

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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(HAGADAH).

Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-German. Accompanied by Leone Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.”

Title within arch surrounded by 4-part textual and typographic border. Each page profusely illustrated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame (after the Venice 1629 Hagadah). Previous owners’ signatures in Judeo-German and French on recto of front free endpaper, pencil illustration dated 1880 of a rotund soldier bearing a sword on verso, previous owners’ names and inscription dated 1681 on verso of title-page. ff. (26). Stained and worn, marginal repair to a few leaves, small portion of f.7 and f.9 in facsimile. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked. Folio. Yudlov 67; Yaari 48.

Venice: Lorenzo Pradotto for Gerolimo Bragadin 1663

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

The House of Bragadin produced three issues of this 1663 edition, differing only in choice of translation: Judeo-German (the copy presently offered), Judeo-Italian and Judeo-Spanish.