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Auction 5 · Lot 119

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

Estimate
$500–$700
Hammer price
$300

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(HAGADAH)

Place

Vienna

Publication

1898

Description

Edited by David Heinrich Mueller and Julius von Schlosser. Facsimile Edition. Text-Volume only. (pp. 316, 39 plates with 18 figures in color and black-and-white). Lacking Plate-Volume (containing an additional 35 plates). One of 250 Copies (?)

references

Yudlov 2053; L.A. Mayer, A Bibliography of Jewish Art (1967) no.1792

summary

Contains considerable information on illuminated Hagadah manuscripts. Indeed, the publication of Mueller and Schlosser’s outstanding study of this extraordinarily rich manuscript “for the first time focused attention on this expression of art among the Jews.” A. Marx, JQR - New Series (1928) vol. XIX
Contemporary half-morocco, gilt. Lg. 4to
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