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Auction 7 · Lot 656

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

Estimate
$5,000–$6,000
Hammer price
$5,000

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

author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1716

Description

Title within arch surrounded by four part floral border. Each page profusely illustrated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame

references

Yudlov 133; Yaari 84

summary

The House of Bragadin simultaneously printed three issues of this Passover Hagadah, all identical with the same layout and illustration cycle - differing only in choice of vernacular translation: Yiddish, Judeo-Italian and Spanish, i.e. Ladino. The Ladino issue is particularly rare; very few 18th century Hagadoth appeared with Ladino translation at all
ff.(24). Stained, few marginal repairs. Modern cloth-backed marbled boards. Folio
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