Seder Hagadah Shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,000

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1716

Description

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

references

Yudlov 132; Yaari 82

summary

The House of Bragadin simultaneously printed three issues of this Passover Hagadah, all identical with the same layout and illustration cycle according to the custom of Aschkenaz, Rome and Spain (i.e. Ladino). All carried Judeo-Italian translation, the principle difference between them all was the Grace after Meals

ff. (26). Stained, few marginal repairs. Later vellum-backed Dutch marbled boards, rubbed at extremities. Folio

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