Hagadah shel Pesaḥ, 1726 and הגדה של פסח

Description

Title

Hagadah shel Pesaḥ, 1726
הגדה של פסח

Alternative Title

Haggadah

Contributor

Oppenheim, Moses.

Abstract

Title, fol. 1a: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ ... maʻasé' yede ha-ḳaṭan Mosheh ben ha-manoaḥ ha-ḳatsin khar"ar Natan zatsal Oppenheim me ḳehilah kedoshah Mʻanets ... khatavti zot be-shenat Ṿa-yikhtov Mosheh et divre ha-zot ʻad tumam le-poh kehilatenu

‏הגדה של פסח ... מעש' ידי הקטן בן המנוח הקצין כהר"ר נתן זצ"ל אופנהיים מק"ק מענץ ... כתבתי זאת בשנת ויכתב משה את דברי הזאת עד תמם לפ"ק.

Description

On vellum. Artful calligraphic square characters for the text; calligraphic cursive characters for notation, Yiddish portions of the text, etc.Text within gilt line borders, initials illuminated in gilt.
Illustrated title-page, 12 half-page miniatures, and a number of smaller miniatures in colors.
Red straight-grain morocco binding, gilt tooled possibly original.
The design of the title-page and of some of the miniatures is based on the engravings in the Hagadah printed at Amsterdam in 1712; the artist made considerable changes in the figures, backgound, etc.
Owners: 1. Moses ben Mordecai Oppenheim, 1795 (autograph on fol. 1a); 2. Samuel ben Moses, called Samuel Frank of Laudenbach (in Württemberg) (autograph on fly-leaves in front and in back); 3] Zalman (Solomon) Loeb, of Erie, Pennsylvania (presentation-inscription to him on fly-leaf in back); 4] Solomon ben Meir (identical with 3?), who died on Tuesday, 23d Adar II, A.M. 5673 [A.D. 1913] at Erie, Pennsylvania (notice of his death by his son on fly-leaf in back).

Provenance

Purchased from The Aldine Book Company (H. Gold); no. 1400 in their sales-catalogue of "Americana-Judaica & Hebraica" on the Alexander Kohut Memorial Fund, 1939.

Extent

34 32 x 20.5 cm. fols.,

Extent of Digitization

This object has been completely digitized.

Language

Hebrew

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Hebrew +32

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Texts
Early works to 1800
Subject (Topic): Seder
Liturgy
Judaism
Subjects: Seder > Liturgy > Texts > Early works to 1800
Judaism > Liturgy > Texts > Early works to 1800

Access And Usage Rights

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Citation: Hagadah shel Pesaḥ, 1726, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 7723037
Object ID (OID): 33333259