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

Title

Hagadah for Passover with the commentaries of Isaac Abravanel ('Leipnik Haggadah').

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Sloane MS 3173
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_3173
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew; Yiddish

Origin

Place

Hamburg-Altona

Summary

Hagadah for Passover with the commentaries of Isaac Abravanel ('Leipnik Haggadah').

Extent

40 folios; 40 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, gold tooled.

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 10 60; written lines: 10 60; Ruling and sometimes pricking are visible. Watermark, folio [41v], of a fleur-de-lis, unidentified. The square and semi-cursive scripts are imitations of the Amsterdam letters and Rashi script respectively used in printing.

Script

Ashkenazi punctuated square and unpunctuated semi-cursive script.

Provenance

• Yosef ben David of Leipnik
   
• Acquisition: Sir Hans Sloane: baronet, physician and collector (b. 1660, d. 1753): in his collection; acquired by the British Museum in 1753. English inscription citing the Catalogue of the Sloane Manuscripts (on a paper slip glued to folio [41v]).
   
• Acquisition: Note by Frederic Madden: "See another copy of this work, similarly written and ornamented, MS Add. 18724. F.M." (folio [41v]).
   

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 — Targum ῾aravi le-Torah ve-ḥamesh megilot