Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

הגדה של פסח (Hagadah for Passover)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1404
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1404
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Place

Spain, N. E.Catalonia

Summary

Hagadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite (the 'Brother Hagadah').

Notes

• Me᾿ir ben Malakhi᾿el Ashkenazi: sold to his brother-in-law, Mosheh ibn Keves in the month of Sivan 5162 (3 May to 1 June 1402): inscribed (on a strip of vellum stuck on a paper strip pasted on folio 1r).
   
• Avraham Ḥen, son of the nobleman R. Ya'udah, physician, son of Emanuel Ḥen the physician of the house of Shealti᾿el: inscribed with his name (folio 50v).
   
• Pencil note in English: "Spanish mss. Of this age are so rare that the Brit. Mus. has not one like this." (folio [i verso]).
   

Extent

51 folios; 51 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Pre-1600. Italian white parchment, tooled. Spine: 'Haggadah. Pesach. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 1404.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 15 28; written lines: 15 28; Ruling is visible. Hair-side and flesh-side of the folios are distinguishable.

Script

Sefardi square script, partially punctuated (certain sections of the main text as well as the captions and texts on the upper and lower margins not punctuated).

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum at Bragge's sale on 7-10 June 1876: inscribed (folio [i verso]); perhaps William Bragge (b. 1823, d. 1884), civil engineer and steel manufacturer.
   

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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