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

Estimate: $6,000–$8,000
Hammer price: $5,500

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author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Giovanni Caleoni for Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1629

Description

Title within architectural arch. Each page profusely illustrated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame

references

Yudlov 56; Yaari 42; Yerushalmi 49-55

summary

A new, and overall more artistically satisfying edition of the Venice Hagadah, this time with a commentary by Leone Modena. As before, this was a trilingual issue. The present, Judeo-German Hagadah, is the more most infrequent to appear at auction

ff. (26). Browned and stained, edges frayed, many inner margins torn, extreme lower left corner of final leaf removed. Contemporary vellum, rubbed and torn. Folio

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