Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-German. Accompanied by Leone Modena’s abridged commentary of Isaac Abrabanel’s “Zevach Pesach.”

Estimate: $1,500–$2,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(HAGADAH).

printer

Lorenzo Pradotto for Gerolimo Bragadin

Place

Venice

Publication

1663

Description

Title within arch surrounded by 4-part textual and typographic border. Each page profusely illustrated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame (after the Venice 1629 Hagadah). Previous owners’ signatures in Judeo-German and French on recto of front free endpaper, pencil illustration dated 1880 of a rotund soldier bearing a sword on verso, previous owners’ names and inscription dated 1681 on verso of title-page.

references

Yudlov 67; Yaari 48.

summary

The House of Bragadin produced three issues of this 1663 edition, differing only in choice of translation: Judeo-German (the copy presently offered), Judeo-Italian and Judeo-Spanish.

ff. (26). Stained and worn, marginal repair to a few leaves, small portion of f.7 and f.9 in facsimile. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked. Folio.

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