Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Roman rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. With commentary Tzeli Esh, R. Judah Modena's abridgment of Don Isaac Abrabanel's commentary Zevach Pesach

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,900

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author

(HAGADAH)

printer

for Alvise Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1716

Description

Title within arch surrounded by 4-part typographic border, each page profusely illustrated within architectural border. On title, signatures of former owner, "Hezekiah Shabthai Morpurgo."

references

Yudlov 131; Yaari 81

summary

The Morpurgos were an illustrious Northern Italian Jewish family, hailing originally from Marburg, Germany, as the name indicates. Members of the family were financiers, poets and scholars. See Chosen: Philadelphia's Great Hebraica (2007), p. 49, no. 35

ff. 26. Browned, some marginal loss of text due to close cropping. Later vellum. Folio

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