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Flörsheim Haggadah
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This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

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Date:

1502

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Family, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
Single manuscript page with Hebrew text, two illustrations on the left margin of two people at a table with an herb and of a person next to child, and an illustration on the bottom of people sitting around a table while man waits outside the door.
Venice Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…

Contributor:

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Holidays, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew and Judeo-Italian text in center, and side columns of Hebrew text, with decorated archway above columns and illustration of groups of men on the bottom of the page.
Haggadah
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This Haggadah was created by Abraham Farissol in Ferrara, Italy, for his friend Joseph ben Mordecai Judah Norsa. It has twelve illustrations in ink, accented with watercolor. Pictured here (bottom) is…

Contributor:

Abraham Farissol

Places:

Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)

Date:

1515

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Haggadah, Passover

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text and illustration of person with hands clasped in left margin, and people eating at a table in bottom margin.
Faces decorating a siddur
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These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1500

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Humor, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Religion & Theology
Three drawings of faces with floral designs.
Haggadah from Mantua, 1560
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…

Contributor:

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.
Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)
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These woodcuts appeared in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It was the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600/1

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Passover, Music, Food and drink

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.