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Detailed record for Oriental 2884
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| Title |
Haggadah for Passover (the 'Sister Haggadah') |
| Origin |
Spain, N.E., Catalonia (Barcelona) |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Hebrew |
| Script |
Sephardi square script, main text punctuated, captions and instructions for the Seder not punctuated |
| Decoration |
34 full-page miniatures with captions (ff. 1v-18), 11 textual illustrations (ff. 27v, 32v, 34v, 35v, 36, 36v, 41v, 50v, 51v, 52, 61). 39 decorated initial-word panels with gold or silver letters and foliate spreading to the margins (ff. 19v, 20, 23, 27v, 28, 29, 32v, 33, 33v, 34, 34v, 35, 35v, 36, 37, 38v, 41v, 42v, 43, 44, 45, 45v, 46, 46v, 47v, 48, 50, 50v, 51v, 52, 53, 53v, 54v, 57, 58, 59v, 60v, 61, 62v). One fulll border (f. 27v) and 11 marginal decorations with foliate, sometimes with dragons, hybrids (ff. 19v, 35, 41, 47v, 48v, 49, 49v, 55, 57, 60v, 63). 37 initial-word panels with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing (ff. 20v, 21, 21v, 22, 22v, 23v, 24, 25, 26, 26v, 27v, 30v, 34, 35v, 36v, 37, 37v, 39, 39v, 40, 40v, 41, 42, 43v, 44, 44v, 45, 46v, 48v, 49, 49v, 52v, 55, 58v, 60, 62v, 63), and embellished bands with foliate motifs on two folios (ff. 45v, 63). |
| Dimensions in mm |
230 x 190 (150 x 120) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 64 (+ one unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and one at the end; there are two systems of foliation, one running from left to right and one running from right to left. The references according to the one from right to left) |
| Collation |
9 quires: i8 (ff. 1-8), ii8 (ff. 9-16), iii2 (ff. 17-18), iv-viii8 (ff. 19-58), ix6 (ff. 59-64). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. White parchment binding. |
| Provenance |
A handwritten note on paper, stuck onto the inside lower cover: 'Le pitture rappresentareo I fatti principali delle Genesi e dell'Estudo fino al passaggio del Mar Rosso compito; li ultimi tre se referiscono ni riti Pasquali Ebraici, e il tuto alla fine del MS. contiene il Rituale della Pasqua delgi Ebrei.'
Vergane Pietro: inscribed with his name in pencil (f. 1).
Eugen von Miller: purchased by the British Museum from him on 13 June 1885 (inscription in f. [ 65v]). |
| Notes |
The name 'Sister Haggadah' was coined by Bezalel Narkiss, and it refers to the fact that in the choice of the scenes as well as in iconography, it is very similar to the 'Golden Haggadah'. On the Narkiss nomenclature see Katrin Kogman-Appel 1997, p. 452, n. 9.
Watermark on ff. [i] and [65], of a hexagonal star, unidentified. |
| 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. 608.
Bezalel Narkiss, Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (New York: Macmillan 1969), pp. 22, 58.
Ursula Schubert, 'Die Erschaffung Adams in einer spanischen Haggadah-Handschrift des 14. Jahrhunderts (Br. Mus. Or.2884) und ihre spätantike jüdische Bildvorlage,' Kairos 18 (1976), 213-17.
Joseph Gutmann, Hebrew Manuscript Painting (New York: Braziller, 1978), p. 18, nos. 26, 33.
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. 12; II, figs 155-208.
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.
Mira Friedman, 'A Jewish Motif of the Creation of Man', in Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division D, vol. II (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986), pp. 1-7.
Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, La Bible hébraïque (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1987).
Evelyn C. Cohen, 'The "Sister Haggadah" and Its "Poor Relation"', Proceedings of the Eleventh Journal of World Congress of Jewish Studies, D2 (1994), 17-24.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'The Sephardic Picture Cycles and the Rabbinic Tradition: Continuity and Innovation in Jewish Iconography', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 60 (1997), 451-81.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, 'Coping with Christian Pictorial Sources: What Did Jewish Miniaturists Not Paint?' Speculum, 75 (2000), 816-58.
Julie A. Harris, 'Good Jews, Bad Jews, and No Jews at All: Ritual Imagery and Social Standards in the Catalan Haggadot', in Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams, ed. by Therese Martin and Julie A. Harris, The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 26 (Leiden: Brill, 2005), pp. 275-96 (p. 279, fig. 1).
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain. Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), pp. 47-88.
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 98-100.
Vivian B. Mann, 'Jews and Altarpeices in Medieval Spain', in Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain, ed. by Vivian B. Mann London: Giles, 2010), pp. 105-6.
Zsofia Buda, 'Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art', in Angels, Devils:
The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation (CEU Medievalia), ed. by Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 117-134. |
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f. 1v
Scenes from the life of Adam |
f. 1v
Creation of Adam |
f. 1v
Adam naming the animals |
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f. 1v
Creation of Adam |
f. 2v
Noah's ark |
f. 3
Scenes from Genesis |
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f. 3v
Scenes from Genesis |
f. 4v
Scenes from the life of Jacob |
f. 4v
Jacob and Esau |
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f. 4v
Jacob's ladder |
f. 5v
Scenes from the life of Jacob |
f. 6v
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
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f. 7v
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
f. 8v
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
f. 9v
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
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f. 10
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
f. 10v
Scenes from Exodus |
f. 11
Scenes from the life of Joseph |
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f. 11v
Scenes from Exodus |
f. 12
Scenes from the life of Moses |
f. 12v
Scenes from the life of Moses |
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f. 13
Scenes from the life of Moses |
f. 13v
Scenes from Exodus |
f. 14
The second and the third plagues |
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f. 15
The sixth and the seventh plagues |
f. 15v
The eighth and ninth plagues |
f. 16
Scenes from Exodus |
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f. 16v
Passage of the Red Sea |
f. 17
Preparation for the Seder |
f. 17v
The synagogue |
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f. 18
Seder table |
f. 19v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 20
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 21
Embellished vertical band |
f. 22
Embellished vertical band |
f. 22v
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 23
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 24
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 25
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 27v
Opening to the Seder |
f. 28
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 29
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 32v
The bread of affliction |
f. 33
Mah nishtanah |
f. 34
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 34v
Rabbi Eleazar ben Azaryah |
f. 35
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 35v
The Wise Son and the Wicked Son |
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f. 36
The 'Simple Son' |
f. 36v
The fourth son |
f. 37
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 38v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 41
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 41v
Decorated initial-word, miniature |
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f. 42v
Decorated initial-words |
f. 45
Decorated intial-word panels |
f. 45v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 46
Decorated intial-word panels |
f. 46v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 47v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 48v
Embellished vertical bands |
f. 49
Embellished vertical bands |
f. 49v
Embellished vertical bands |
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f. 50
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 50v
Rabban Gamliel |
f. 51v
Matzah |
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f. 52
Bitter herb |
f. 52v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 53
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 53v
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 55
Decorated initial-word panel |
f. 57
Decorated initial-word panels |
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f. 58
The divine name |
f. 60
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 60v
Decorated initial-word panel |
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f. 61
Man praying |
f. 62v
Decorated initial-word panels |
f. 63
Decorated initial-word panels |
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