Prague Haggadah
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From footprints
- rdf:type
- Footprint
- Actor
- Jack Lunzer, Valmadonna Trust Collection (Owner)
- Date
- 1982/2009
- Copy
- 4962-7227-9183
- Language
- English
- Evidence type
- Reference in another text
- Evidence description
- Valmadonna 3939
- Notes
Contains over fifty woodcut illustrations, plus three fully decorated pages with engraved borders in a monumental Gothic style which Cecil Roth describes as "the culmination of the achievement." f. 1r: The first page, in Roth’s words: "Shows the service for the searching of the l…
Contains over fifty woodcut illustrations, plus three fully decorated pages with engraved borders in a monumental Gothic style which Cecil Roth describes as "the culmination of the achievement." f. 1r: The first page, in Roth’s words: "Shows the service for the searching of the leaven, within a decorative white-on-black border in the spirit of the early German Renaissance, including…the bucrania characteristic of Roman architecture…and a vignette showing the pious householder, taper in hand as he searches for leaven." f. 3v: Text of "Keha Lachma Anya" with the initial word historiated and "surmounted by the sacerdotal badge of the hands joined in blessing, symbol of the Priesthood, with the name of the printer, Gershom Cohen flanked on either side by cherubs. Below is a cut depicting the judgement of Solomon…while to the right and left, under elaborate columns are muscular figures of David and Goliath." f. 25r: Text of “Shephoch Chamathcha” is the most sumptuous and impressive of the fully decorated pages. Central within the text is a vignette of the Messiah astride a donkey.The text is flanked by figures of Adam and Eve at the upper part of the page; and lower-down, the figure of Judith bearing a sword in one hand and the head of the Syrian General Holophernes in the other. Facing opposite, is the mighty Samson grasping the Gates of Gaza. The lowest register depicts a shield with a rampant lion and bifurcated tail along with the Bohermian Coat of Arms supported by two mythological fur-covered wild men. To the left of the shield is the letter "Shin" likely the initial letter of the unknown artist. (This initial also appears in three of the marginal woodcuts). ff. 38. Printed on vellum. Purchase date from Museum of the Bible collections site. Deaccessioned and purchased at auction in 1982 by the Valmadonna Trust Library, London, England; The auction took place at Sotheby’s, New York, New York, November 24, 1982.- Owner
- Jack Lunzer, Valmadonna Trust Collection
- Percent complete
- 90
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Evidence location
- Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library, Books Printed on Vellum, #13
- Title
- Prague Haggadah
- Verified
- false
- described at
- https://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/footprint/21014/
- dcterms:date
- 1982 - 2009
- rdfs:label
- Prague Haggadah