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Title

Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 14762
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_14762
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

GermanyUlm

Summary

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Hagadah').

Notes

• Slightly damaged by damp.
   
• Yaʿaḳov Matatyah: mentioned in the colophon (folio 48v).
   

Extent

49 folios; 49 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

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

Layout

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.

Script

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).

Provenance

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

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Introduction
• fol. 6r — Hagadah