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HAGGADAH -- Haggadah shel Pesah (Ritual for Passover Eve). - ISAAC BEN JUDAH ABRAVENEL. Zebah Pesah (Paschal Sacrifice: commentary). With a poem by Judah Abravanel (Leon Ebreo). Constantinople: David and Samuel ibn Nahmias, 6th November 1505.
4o (240 x 180 mm). 40 leaves (complete). Various paper stocks. [1-58], sheets signed 1-20. Square heading-type 220H, square text-type 172H, cursive commentary-type 88H. White-on-black woodcut border showing animals of the chase (from Hijar-Lisbon; 185 x 135 mm), around the introductory poem on. (Some light browning and spotting.) Modern quarter vellum.
Third edition of the Haggadah, FIRST EDITION of Abravanel's commentary. This was the third book produced at Constantinople's first press (established 1493). Abranavel's Nahlat Abot (Steinschneider 1433A) and Rosh Amanah (Steinschneider 5302,44) appeared at the same time as this work, and the three are presumed to have been sold both individually and together.
Hind wrote of the woodcut border: "In its combination of delicate tendril and scroll, with animals and conventional grotesque, it shows definite Islamic influence, and is characteristic of Hispano-Mauresque design. It is comparable with Ratoldt's work... but the style is carried to an extraodinary finesse in technique" (History of Woodcut II, p. 746). Cowley 559; De Rossi (XVI) 2.6; Isaac 14481; Steinschneider 2671; Yaari, Haggadah 3; Yaari Constantinople 3; Zedner 440.
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Third edition of the Haggadah, FIRST EDITION of Abravanel's commentary. This was the third book produced at Constantinople's first press (established 1493). Abranavel's Nahlat Abot (Steinschneider 1433A) and Rosh Amanah (Steinschneider 5302,44) appeared at the same time as this work, and the three are presumed to have been sold both individually and together.
Hind wrote of the woodcut border: "In its combination of delicate tendril and scroll, with animals and conventional grotesque, it shows definite Islamic influence, and is characteristic of Hispano-Mauresque design. It is comparable with Ratoldt's work... but the style is carried to an extraodinary finesse in technique" (History of Woodcut II, p. 746). Cowley 559; De Rossi (XVI) 2.6; Isaac 14481; Steinschneider 2671; Yaari, Haggadah 3; Yaari Constantinople 3; Zedner 440.