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Additional 14761
f. 28v
Seder table
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| Description: |
Historiated initial-word panel Ha lahma aniya (The Bread of Affliction), at the beginning of the text of the Haggadah. Beneath the initial words, a miniature depicting a family by the Seder table with the master of the house placing the basket of unleavened bread on the head of one of his children. Full foliate border inhabited by animals and dragons.
Placing the basket over the head of the participants was a Sephardi custom and it was considered as a symbolic way to experience the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt carrying the dough on their backs (See Metzger 1982, p. 260). |
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Spain, N. E., Catalonia (Barcelona) |
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