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

Decorated Manuscript, Passover Haggadah and Tahir shel Pesach – Morocco, 19th Century

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Manuscript, Passover Haggadah and Tahir shel Pesach. Outat El Haj (Morocco), 19th century.
The manuscript is decorated throughout with many ornaments, including title pages and carpet pages typical of Moroccan manuscript ornamentation.
The Haggadah is followed by Tahir shel Pesach, recited by the North–African communities during Passover. The work includes a halachic piyyut on the laws of Pesach in the Holy Tongue with Judeo–Arabic translation (paragraph by paragraph), other piyyutim in Judeo–Arabic and translation of the Pesach haftarot.
Writer's colophon at the end of the Haggadah (p. [22]b), with his calligraphic signature.


[89] leaves. 18 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and open tears, affecting text in several places. Several detached leaves. Inscriptions. New binding, covered in leather from an old binding (original?). Card slipcase.


Exhibition: Yeshiva University Museum, New York, "The Sephardic Journey: 1492–1992", 1990–1992. See exhibition catalog, p. 297, no. 403.
Exhibitions:
• Yeshiva University Museum, New York, "The Sephardic Journey: 1492–1992", 1990–1992. ראו קטלוג התערוכה, מס' 403, עמ' 297 .
• Andre Goldenberg, Art and Jews of Morocco, Paris, 2014, p. 217.
• Julie–Marthe Cohen, Joden onder de Islam / Jews under Islam, 1993, p. 117.
• Esther Shkalim, A Mosaic of Israel's Traditions, 2006, p. 180.
• The Moroccan Jewry Haggadah: Passover Haggadah, Naomi Shapira, Kfar HaOranim, 2015, p. 28–29.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.009.

Moroccan and North African Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters
Moroccan and North African Jewry – Manuscripts and Letters