Auction 059 Items from the Victor (Avigdor) Klagsbald Collection: Early Printed Books, Manuscripts, Glosses and Autographs by Leading Rabbinic Figures
Passover Haggadah with Commentary of Abarbanel and Illustrations – Fürth, 1783
Opening: $300
Sold for: $400
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Haggadah – Passover seder, with commentary of Abarbanel, and Yiddish commentary, "for men and children". Fürth: Itzek son of Leib Buchbinder, [1783].
Fine illustrated title page, with figures of Moses and Aaron, angels, King David playing the lyre, and Jacob's dream.
On front endpaper – copying in Ashkenazic script of passages from the laws of Passover in the Shulchan Aruch. On leaf 7: "Before eating the matzah, it is a mitzvah to kiss the matzah…". Another gloss on leaf 6.
12 leaves. 32 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Tears, including marginal open tears to some leaves, repaired with paper filling. Worming, repaired with paper. New binding.
Otzar HaHaggadot 308.
Passover Haggadot
Passover Haggadot