Auction 102 Part 1 Hebrew Manuscripts and Books from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection

Mateh Aharon Passover Haggadah – Frankfurt, 1710 – With Illustrations

Opening: $400
Estimate: $600 - $800
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium

Passover Haggadah, with Mateh Aharon commentary by R. Aharon Darshan Teomim, with an added kabbalistic commentary. Frankfurt am Main: Dayan R. Leib Schnapper, [1710]. Integrated Ashkenazic and Sephardic rite, with instructions and comments in Yiddish and Ladino respectively.

Copper-engraved illustrations (after Avraham son of Yaakov HaGer, Amsterdam Haggadah, 1695).

Elaborate title page, composed of several illustrated typographical decorations (bottom part of title page damaged).

Ownership inscriptions on title page (partially trimmed and partially faded): "Belongs to R. Nata Lors[?]". Handwritten correction on p. 37a.

[2], 2-44 leaves. 29 cm. Varying condition, fair to good-fair. Stains, including dark food stains to several leaves. Tears and open tears, including open tears to title page, affecting title frame, and affecting text and illustrations on several leaves, repaired with paper filling. Worming, repaired with paper filling. Close trimming, affecting headers of leaves in several places. New binding.

Otzar HaHaggadot 113.

CB, no. 2710; Zedner, p. 441; Roest p. 690.

Passover Haggadot – Manuscripts and Printed Books
Passover Haggadot – Manuscripts and Printed Books