Auction 65 · Lot 25
Passover Hagadah.
- Estimate
- $30,000–$50,000
- Hammer price
- $42,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HAGADAH).
Place
Byzantine
Publication
14th-15th century
Description
Manuscript in Hebrew, written in brown ink in square- (Hagadah text) and semi-cursive-hand (instructions and hand commentary) on vellum.
summary
A MAGNIFICENT HAGADAH OF MEDIEVAL FRANCO-GERMAN ORIGIN.
Although the text seems to follow the Spanish rite as is apparent from the Grace after Meals, the instructions appear to follow Aschkenazic custom.
Along the margins of ff. 17-18, appear glosses from one “Hillel” compiling the laws of lulav, in a lighter brown ink than the manuscript itself. It is unclear why these laws would appear in this Hagadah. Final three pages consist of the She’arim of R. Yitzchak of Dura - an index of the laws found in the Sha’arei Dura.
ff. 22. Modern calf, slip-case. 8vo.
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