Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, MS orientalis 8

First Darmstadt Haggadah Facsimile Edition

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The First Darmstadt Haggadah is a luxuriously decorated manuscript produced around 1430 in Ulm by the scribe Israel ben Meir, who seems to have relocated to the city after the Jewish community was expelled from Heidelberg. Its text, which recounts the story of God leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, would have been read during the Passover seder. Many of the manuscript's pages are decorated with richly painted figures, real and fantastic animals, and painted word panels of one or more letters. A hunt and the fountain of the youth are subjects of full-page miniatures.

We have 2 facsimiles of the manuscript "First Darmstadt Haggadah":

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Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.
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#1 Die Darmstädter Pessach-Haggadah

Frankfurt/Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1971-72

  • Commentary (English, German) by Gutmann, Joseph
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, First Darmstadt Haggadah: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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#2 Die Darmstädter Pessach-Haggadah, codex orientalis 8 der Landesbibliothek zu Darmstadt

Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1927-1928

  • Commentary (German) by Italiener, Bruno; Freimann, Aron; Mayer, August L.; Schmidt, Adolf
  • Limited Edition: 350 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, First Darmstadt Haggadah: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

Binding

Half-bound in leather.

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