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Bidding Information
Lot #
21033
Auction End Date
6/17/2008 11:55:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Haggadah Shel Pessah
Title (Hebrew)
הגדה של פסח
Author
Facsimile of the Prague 1526
City
New York
Publisher
Shulsinger Bros.
Publication Date
1964
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
[42] ff., tall folio, 348:244 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in the original half cloth boards.
Detailed
Description
Facsimile of the Prague Haggadah of 1526. This magnificent work, with its profuse marginal cuts and decorations and its superb borders, is among the finest productions of the 16th-century press. The beauty of the work lies above all in the disposition of the type and the exquisite balance of the pages. Its most remarkable feature is three pages with engraved borders in monumental gothic style. The printers and publishers were Gershom Solomon Kohen Katz and his brother Gronem (Geronim). The artistic work was apparently executed partly by Ḥayyim Shaḥor (Schwartz), Gershom Kohen's collaborator, who sometimes signed his initials, and partly by a gentile assistant. Some of the decorative features were derived from non-Jewish works, including the Nuremberg chronicle of 1484. In recent years the Prague Haggadah has been reproduced repeatedly in facsimile. The cuts and illustrations in the publication were long imitated, deteriorating progressively as the years went by.
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Subject
Haggadah:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
