Description of British Library, Add MS 14762: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-07-07 2020-07-07 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 14762: 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 14762: 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. Slightly damaged by damp. Yaʿaḳov Matatyah: mentioned in the colophon (folio 48v). 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 14762 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14762 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Hagadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Hagadah'). Hebrew Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח) 1r Introduction 6r Hagadah

Parchment

 49 folios; 49 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 12; written lines: 12; Ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are not distinguishable. Many marginal illuminations and illustrations, which consist mainly of gold and coloured letters and designs. Ashkenazi square and Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, main text punctuated, commentary not punctuated, of mid-15th century. Yoʾel ben Shimʻon Feibush, illuminator: inscribed with his name in the colophon (folio 48v).

Pre-1600, contemporary. Dark brown leather, blind tooled, with remains of clasps.

Between 1430 and 1470

GermanyUlm Acquisition: Purchased by Payne & Foss, April 1844.