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Detailed record for Sloane 3173
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| Author |
Isaac Abravanel |
| Title |
Haggadah for Passover with the commentaries of Isaac Abravanel ('Leipnik Haggadah') |
| Origin |
Germany, N. (Hamburg, Altona) |
| Date |
1740 |
| Language |
Hebrew, Yiddish |
| Script |
Ashkenazi punctuated square and unpunctuated semi-cursive script |
| Scribe |
Joseph ben David of Leipnik |
| Artists |
Joseph ben David of Leipnik |
| Decoration |
Illustrated title page in colours and gold (f. 1). Numerous miniatures in colours and gold. 4 decorated initial words and initial-word panels in colours (ff. 4, 10, 21, 25v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
350 x 255 (250 x 170) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 40 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning and 1 older and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Collation |
11 quires: i-ii4-1 (ff. 1-6), iii2 (ff. 7-8), iv-xi4 (ff. 9-40). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled. |
| Provenance |
Joseph ben David of Leipnik, scribe: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Hamburg-Altona, [5]500 (1740) (f. 40).
Dated title page, 1740 (f. 1).
Sir Hans Sloane: baronet, physician and collector (b. 1660, d. 1753): in his collection; acquired by the British Museum in 1753.
English inscription citing the Catalogue of the Sloane Manuscripts (see bibliography, 1782) (on a paper slip glued to f. [41v]).
Note by Frederic Madden: "See another copy of this work, similarly written and ornamented, MS Add. 18724. F.M." (f. [41v]). |
| Notes |
Ruling and sometimes pricking are visible. Watermark, f. [41v], of a fleur-de-lis, unidentified. The square and semi-cursive scripts are imitations of the Amsterdam letters and Rashi script respectively used in printing. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, hitherto undescribed ... including the collections by Sir Hans Sloane, the Rev. Thomas Birch, etc. By S. Ayscough, 2 vols (London, 1782), I, p. 51.
Cecil Roth, Jewish Art: An Illustrated History (London: W. H. Allen, 1961), p. 446.
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. 612.
Kurt Schubert, 'Die Weisen von Bne Braq in der Haggadaillustration des 18. Jahrhunderts', Artibus et Historiae, 9 (1988), 71-81 (pp. 72, 75).
Iris Fishof, JuĻdische Buchmalerei in Hamburg und Altona: zur Geschichte der Illumination hebraĻischer Handschriften im 18. Jahrhundert (Hamburg: Christians, 1999), pp. 38-40.
Leon Prager and Brad Sabin Hill, 'Yiddish Manuscripts in the British Library', The British Library Journal, 21 (1995), 81-108 (pp. 86, 103).
Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image (London, British Library, 2007), pp. 140-41. |
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