Hagadah shel Pesach- L’Haggadà Illustrata.

(HAGADAH).

Colombo Coen (Jonah Cohen)

Trieste

1864

Finely illustrated by C. Kirchmayr with 58 copper-plates. Edited by Abraham Vita Morpurgo. Hebrew text with Italian translation. Musical arrangements on final leaf.

Yudlov 1217; Yaari 899

“The Trieste Hagadah is undoubtedly the most distinguished illustrated edition produced in Europe during the nineteenth century.” (Yerushalmi 102-105). Different in format and design from any edition that preceded it, the Trieste Hagadah’s engraved illustrations, though inspired by the iconographic themes of the past, display a welcome freshness of design. Two issues were published simultaneously, one entirely in Hebrew and the other accompanied by an Italian translation. See C. Roth, Printed Illuminated Haggadoth, in: Aresheth, Vol. III, pp. 27-8.