Haggadah, with Marathi translation and illustrations. Bombay (India), [1846]. Lithograph of manuscript. Text and translation on facing pages.
Original illustrations. Illustrated title page, with figures of Moshe and Aharon [inspired by the title page of the 1712 Amsterdam Haggadah]. Illustrations of the simanim of the Seder and the Seder ritual dish [inspired by the Livorno Haggadah illustrations].
The first Haggadah printed according to the custom of the Bene Israel Jews in India.
[5], 35 [should be 36] leaves. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains. New binding.
Ya'ari Haggadot 656; Otzar HaHaggadot 895. Ya'ari, The Hebrew Printing in the East, Bombay, no. 92.
Provenance: Sassoon family collection.