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The Brother Haggadah - A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile (Hardcover)
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The Brother Haggadah - A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile (Hardcover)
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The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are
among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and The
`Brother' Haggadah - so-called because of its close relationship to
The Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John Rylands Library,
Manchester - is one of the finest of these to have survived.
Created by Sephardi - or southern - artists and scribes in
Catalonia in the second quarter of the 14th century, it sets out
the liturgy and sequence of the Passover Seder, a ritual feast by
which Jewish families give thanks for the liberation of the
Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt as described in the Book
of Exodus. This finely produced facsimile edition begins with an
introduction by medieval scholar Professor Marc Michael Epstein,
who sets out the background to the Passover and provides an
analysis of the manuscript's iconographic scheme. Following are
essays on the provenance of The `Brother' Haggadah by Ilana Tahan,
head of the Hebrew and Christian collections at the British
Library, and on the Shaltiel family, former owners of the
manuscript, by Hebrew scholar Eliezer Laine. The book also contains
a translation of the poems and commentary in the manuscript by the
late Raphael Lowe, former Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew at
University College London, and a translation of the Haggadah
liturgy.
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