Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections
Colorful Decorated Manuscript, Haggadah and Tahir shel Pesach – Morocco, 18th/19th Century
Manuscript, Haggadah and Tahir shel Pesach [laws of Passover]. [Morocco, 18th/19th century].
Square script. Decorated in typical Moroccan style, with colored architectonic borders and ornaments.
Tahir shel Pesach is a composition recited in North African communities during Passover, containing a halachic piyyut of the laws of Passover, in the Holy Tongue with Judeo–Arabic translation (paragraph by paragraph); other piyyutim in Judeo–Arabic and translation of the relevant haftarot.
[16] leaves. Leaves bound out of sequence; appears to be lacking leaves. 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears, open tears and many defects, affecting text. New card wrappers.
Exhibition:
• Yeshiva University Museum, New York, "The Sephardic Journey: 1492–1992", 1990–1992. See exhibition catalog, no. 401, p. 297.
• The Moroccan Jewry Haggadah: Passover Haggadah, Naomi Shapira, Kfar HaOranim, 2015, p. 4–5.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.011.