Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to the rite of Rome

(HAGADAH).

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1609

Hebrew text center flanked by Judeo-Italian on both sides. Both Hebrew and Judeo-Italian texts vocalized. Aschkenazi hymn “Allmächtiger Gott nun bau dayn Tempel” (Adir Hu) on final page in wayber-taytsch letters with inscription of censor: “Visto per me Gio[vanni] Domi[ni]co Carretto 1617” (see Wm Poppers, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. III, no. 7). Historiated initials, replete with woodcut illustrations throughout

Yudlov 47; Yaari 37

A LANDMARK IN EVOLUTION OF THE HAGADAH DESIGN. The title-page exalts “So beautiful [is this Hagadah] the eye will never have its fill of beholding it...Why tell more? See for yourselves!” This edition represents a landmark in the evolution of Hagadah illustration. While some of the artistic themes are not necessarily new, Yerushalmi (pl. 44-48) vouches for the particular novelty of certain depictions, viz: the Simanei ha-Seder on f.2r and the Ten Plagues on f.10r. Di Gara produced three issues of this Hagadah: Judeo-Italian, Judeo-German (Yiddish) and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)