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Detailed record for Oriental 2737
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| Title |
Haggadah for Passover (the 'Hispano-Moresque Haggadah') |
| Origin |
Spain, Central (Castile) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century, c. 1300 |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, punctuated |
| Decoration |
Picture cycle of 63 full-page miniatures with coloured washes (ff. 62v-93v), and 2 full-page miniatures at the beginning and at the end of the text of the Haggadah (ff. 1, 35v). 5 textual illustrations (ff. 9v, 20v, 21, 22, 22v). Numerous decorated initial-word panels with gold letters. Embellished vertical band with keywords of texts on two folios (ff. 18v, 19). Numerous rubrics. |
| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 120 (90/95 x 60/65) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 93 (+ an unfoliated leaf after f. 3, three modern paper flyleaves and a parchment flyleaf from before 1884 at the beginning and a parchment flyleaf, an older paper flyleaf, and three modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
13 quires: i4 (ff. 1-3*), ii8 (ff. 4-11), iii8 (ff. 12-19), iv6 (ff. 20-25), v8 (ff. 26-33), vi8 (ff. 34-41), vii8 (ff. 42-49), viii8 (ff. 50-57), ix6 (ff. 58-63), x6 (ff. 64-69), xi8 (ff. 70-77), xii8-1 (ff. 78-84), xiii10-1 (ff. 85-93). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Black leather. |
| Provenance |
Hayim Horowitz: purchased by the British Museum from him on 26 January 1884 (paper flyleaf of the back binding). |
| Select bibliography |
George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), II, no. 609.
Mendel Metzger, ‘Two Fragments of a Spanish XIVth Century Haggadah,’ Gesta, 6 (1967), pp. 25-34.
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Isles : a catalogue raisonne´. The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), I, no. 9; II, figs 79-104.
Therese and Mendel Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1982), p. 304.
Yael Zirlin, 'The Schocken Italian Haggadah of c. 1400 and Its Origins', Jewish Art, 12/13 (1986/87), 54-72 (pp. 63-72).
Joseph Gutmann, 'The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval Jewish Art' Artibus et Historiae, 8 (1987), 67-89 (pp. 74, 85).
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: the Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Lieden: Brill, 2004), pp. 94-95.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 90-93.
Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (London: British Library, 2007), p. 160 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 1
Frontispiece |
f. 2
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 5
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 5v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 6
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 6v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 7
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 7v
Decorated initial-words |
f. 8
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 8v
Decorated initial-word |
f. 9
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 9v
The Israelites despoiling the Egyptians |
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f. 9v
Detail |
f. 10
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 10v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 11
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 11v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 12
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 13
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 13v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 14
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 14v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 15
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 15v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 17
Decorated initial and initial-word panels |
f. 17v
Decorated initial |
f. 18
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 19v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 20v
Rabban Gamliel |
f. 20v
Rabban Gamliel |
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f. 21
Rabban Gamliel |
f. 21v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 22
The unleavened bread |
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f. 22v
The bitter herb |
f. 24
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 25
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 26v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 27v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 28v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 29
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 29v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 30
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 32
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 35v
Samson |
f. 35v
Samson |
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f. 36
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 42v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 49v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 53
Rubrics |
f. 62v
The bondage of the Israelites in Egypt |
f. 63
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f. 63v
The miracle of the rod |
f. 64
The fate of the Israelite male children |
f. 64v
Casting the male children into the Nile |
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f. 65
Finding of Moses |
f. 65v
Moses in Egypt |
f. 66
Moses in Egypt |
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f. 66v
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f. 67
The Burning Bush |
f. 67v
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f. 68
Exodus |
f. 68v
Moses and Aaron |
f. 69
Moses meeting Pharaoh |
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f. 69v
The first plague |
f. 70r
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f. 70v
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f. 71r
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f. 71v
The third plague |
f. 72
Moses meeting Pharaoh |
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f. 72v
The fourth plague |
f. 73
Goshen |
f. 73v
Exodus |
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f. 74
Moses and Aaron in front of Pharaoh |
f. 74v
The fifth plague |
f. 75
Cattle of Israel |
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f. 75v
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f. 76
Moses and Aaron in front of Pharaoh |
f. 77
Moses and Aaron in front of Pharaoh |
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f. 77v
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f. 78
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f. 78v
Pharaoh and his counsellors |
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f. 79
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f. 79v
The eighth plague |
f. 80
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f. 80v
The plague fo darkness |
f. 81
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f. 81v
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f. 82
Exodus |
f. 82v
The death of the first-born |
f. 83
Pharaoh giving permission |
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f. 83v
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f. 84
Joseph's burial |
f. 84v
Ba'al Tzefon |
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f. 85
Pursuing Egyptians |
f. 85v
The Israelites complaining to Moses |
f. 86
Crossing the Red Sea |
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f. 86v
Miriam's dance |
f. 86v
Miriam's dance |
f. 87
Cleansing the dishes |
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f. 87v
Unleavened bread |
f. 88
Baking the unleavened bread |
f. 88v
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f. 89
Distribution of the sweatmeat |
f. 89v
Distributing the unleavened bread |
f. 90
Mikveh |
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f. 90v
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f. 91
Seder table |
f. 91v
Passover lamb |
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f. 91v
Paschal lamb |
f. 92
Genesis 22 |
f. 92v
Abraham's servants |
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f. 93
Abraham and Isaac |
f. 93
Abraham and Isaac |
f. 93v
The sacrifice of Isaac |
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