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Title

Hagadah shel Pesaḥ (הגדה של פסח)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 27210
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27210
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

SpainCataloniaBarcelonaItaly

Summary

Hagadah for Passover (the 'Golden Hagadah').

Notes

• Folios 3v-16r are 17th century additions.
   
• Folio 2r is a roughly illuminated title-page from the 17th century.
   
• Fra Luigi da Bologna: censor's signature, Bologna, February 1599 (101v); 104 and appendix § 112-117.
   
• Rabi Yo᾿av Gallicoof Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliyahu', son of Menaḥem Rava in 1602: inscribed on his added title page (folio 2r).
   
• The armorial device of the Gallico and Rava families, added at Carpi in 1602 (folio 16r ).
   
• Camillo Jaghel: censor's signature, 1613 (folio 101v); see 50-56.
   
• Renato da Modena: censor's signature, 1626 (folio 101v); see 132-133.
   
• ῾Azaryah Tsedeḳiyah Ḥayim Ashkenazi: birth entry on 22 January 1689 (folio 1r).
   

Extent

101 folios; 101 folios

Support

Mixed

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather Morocco binding, blind tooled, remains of clasps.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 10 26; written lines: 10 26; Uniform codex. The codex is called the Golden Haggadah because of the diapered gold-leaf background of its miniatures. Ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are distinguishable. Erased text (e. g. folios 81r, 83r, 86r, 86v, 87r, 90v, 94v, 95r, 97r). Many illustrations, which consist mainly of gold, silver, and occasionally coloured letters of first and striking words, placed within coloured designs.

Script

Sephardic square script, partially punctuated, of 14th (for the main part) and 17th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 328; his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin dealer to the British Museum (see 131-153).
   

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 — Illustriations
• fol. 16v — Poetical pieces
• fol. 22r — Lel shemurim
• fol. 24v — Hagadah
• fol. 56v — Liturgical pieces