(Hagadah shel Pesach). Hebrew in square letters provided with vowel points, Judeo-German translation in Wayber-taytsch letters.

(HAGADAH).

(Prague)

(Mid-later half of the 17th century)

Fragment of four pages only. Period woodcut illustrations, including image of soldier armed with halberd (combined spear and battle-ax), accompanying the paragraph of the Wicked Son.

cf. Yudlov 63 and 69.

Two leaves from an otherwise unknown edition of the Passover Hagadah. The type of letters and illustrations found in these two leaves are similar to Hagadoth published by the House of Bak in 17th century Prague. However, a closer examination of the exact style of the letters indicates that these two leaves are different from these versions. For example, Yudlov 69 describes a Hagadah published in Prague after 1665 (now in the Valmadonna Collection). Originally Prof. Chimen Abramsky wrote in the introduction to the facsimile reproduction (Verona, 1978) that it was published between 1590-1606. However, C. Shmeruk in his learned article in Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, 1984, pp.47-48 proved that it was actually published after 1665 based upon the illustrations which were previously used in other books. Pages from another similar type of Hagadah with Yiddish Wayber-taytsch were described by Erika Timm in “Yiddish Literature in a Franconian Genizah (Jerusalem