Auction 17 · Lot 161
Seder Hagadah Shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel
- Estimate
- $1,500–$2,000
- Hammer price
- $1,400
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
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. THE GRAND RABBI OF BOSTON, RABBI LEVI I. HOROWITZ COPY, with his bookplate on front-pastedown
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 customs 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, marginal repairs, slightly affecting text on ff. 15&20. Recent glit-tooled chestnut morocco boards. Folio
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