Description of British Library, Add MS 14761: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-06-26 2020-06-26 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 14761: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 14761: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. On guards. Mordekhai Ottolenghi and Rafa᾿el Ḥayim Ottolenghi: inscribed with their names (folio 151v). Shalom Latif of Jerusalem sold the manuscript to R. Mosheh ben Avraham for 50 gold ducats at Bologna in 5219 (1459): inscribed sale entry in Hebrew: folio 161v. Luigi da Bologna, a converted Jew working for the Inquisition as censor (active 1590-1610): inscribed with his name as censor: 'Visto per mi Fra Luigi del ordine di San Domenico del 1599' (folio 160r), see 104. Yeḥi᾿el Naḥman Fo᾿ah, 17th-century collector of Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books: inscribed with his name (folios 1r, 2r). Illegible Hebrew inscriptions (top of folio 1r, 161v). Livorno Sig. Carissimo Caro: inscribed with his name, a later owner(?) (1790-1809) (folio ii verso. Entry of the catalogue of Payne and Foss (inscription on a strip of paper pasted on ii verso). Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 14761 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14761 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Hagadah for Passover (the 'Barcelona Hagadah'). Hebrew; Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח) 1r Three liturgical pieces 17v The Hagadah 99v Poetical pieces 120v Parashiyot ve-hafṭarot shel Pesaḥ 136v Poetical pieces 152r Targum

Parchment

 161 folios; 161 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 5 30; written lines: 5 30; Ruling with hard-point and pricking is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are distinguishable. Many illustrations, which consist mainly of gold and coloured letters of first and striking words, placed within coloured designs. Number of written lines varies. Sefardic square and semi-cursive script, punctuated, of the 14th century.

BM/BL in-house. Spine title: 'Officium Paschatis. Hebrew. British Library. Additional 14761.'

Between 1325 and 1399

SpainCataloniaBarcelonaFranceProvenceBas-Languedoc Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss in 1844 for 10 shillings; no. 123 (9005) in their catalogue ([162v]).