| If
you are wondering why the cover picture has a gap in it, it is because
this is a very large book (10 3/4" X 14 1/2") and only
two-thirds of it would fit in the scanner at one time. This shows
a very lavish use of parchment, for this is a facsimile, reproduced at
its original size. This is the service that is read during the
Passover Sedar and includes miniatures illustrating both the ritual and
the biblical story. The Ashkenazi Haggadah was created by
Joel ben Simeon, a German artist and scribe who worked in northern
Italy. As well as the miniatures, there are many decorated words
and letters as well as interesting marginalia. In the back, the
text is printed in modern Hebrew characters and translated into
English. There is an introduction and notes on the illuminations
by David Goldstein, curator of Hebrew manuscripts at the British
Library.
This was originally published in the
1985 and sold for $75 - a bargain publisher has now reprinted it at an
excellent price.
Bargain book -
$34.98 (hardcover) |
