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Book/Printed Material Passover Haggadah.

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Title

  • Passover Haggadah.

Summary

  • This Haggadah Shel Pesach (Passover Haggadah) contains the Hebrew and Aramaic texts that are read and sung on the first evening and, in many households in the Diaspora, on the second evening of the Passover festival. These texts often are richly illuminated and decorated with miniatures. This manuscript from Tegernsee Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery located on the Tegernsee in Bavaria, contains 23 miniatures. The manuscript also contains a very polemical commentary in Latin from a Christian point of view, written in 1492 by the Dominican Erhardus, who clearly possessed some knowledge of Hebrew. The presentation of the text and the artistic style indicate that the manuscript originated in Southern Germany or Bavaria in the second half of the 15th century. After the dissolution of the monastery in 1803, the Haggadah was transferred to the Munich Court Library, the predecessor to the Bavarian State Library, where it is now preserved.

Names

  • Erhardus Commentator for Written Text.

Created / Published

  • Bavaria : [publisher not identified], [1475 to 1500]

Headings

  • -  800 B.C. to 601 B.C
  • -  Haggadot
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Miniatures (Illuminations)
  • -  Seder

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "BSB Shelfmark: Cod.hebr. 200"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 36 sheets, parchment : illustrations ; 29 x 23.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
  • -  Content in Hebrew and Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667533

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Erhardus Commentator For Written Text. Passover Haggadah. [Bavaria: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500, 1475] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667533/.

APA citation style:

Erhardus Commentator For Written Text. (1475) Passover Haggadah. [Bavaria: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667533/.

MLA citation style:

Erhardus Commentator For Written Text. Passover Haggadah. [Bavaria: Publisher Not Identified, to 1500, 1475] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667533/>.