Auction 93 Part 1 - Manuscripts, Prints and Engravings, Objects and Facsimiles, from the Gross Family Collection, and Private Collections

Die Haggadah von Sarajevo – The First Scientific Work on the Sarajevo Haggadah, with Many Facsimile Photographs – Vienna, 1898

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Die Haggadah von Sarajevo, eine spanisch–jüdische Bilderhandschrift des Mittelalters, by Dav. Heinr. Müller und Julius v. Schlosser. Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1898. First edition.
First edition of the first scientific work on the Sarajevo Haggadah, by the Assyriologist and the liturgy researcher David Heinrich Müller and the art historian Julius von Schlosser. The book studies the text of the Sarajevo Haggadah and its illustrations in comparison with other manuscript Haggadot, and is accompanied by many black–and–white and color pictures from the Haggadah.


Two parts: part I with commentaries, and part II with facsimile plates of the Haggadah. Fine bindings, with leather spines and gilt decorations.
vi, [1], 316 pages, xxxviii plates and [1] title page plate; [3] pages, 35 plates. 28 cm. Good condition. Some creases and defects. Minor marginal tears to some leaves (primarily to text vol.). Bindings slightly worn, with abrasions and tears to spines. Bookplate in both volumes.


Otzar HaHaggadot 2053.


Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, FAC.75.

Facsimiles, Bibliophilia and Research Books
Facsimiles, Bibliophilia and Research Books