[Andalusi Studies] Andalusi_Studies Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10

[Vivian Mann]

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Today's Topics:

  1. The "Golden Haggadah" goes online (Liran Yadgar)


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From: Liran Yadgar <yadgar at uchicago.edu>
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Subject: [Andalusi Studies] The "Golden Haggadah" goes online
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Dear all,

The "Golden Haggadah", a unique Haggadah manuscript from Medieval Spain, that was probably created in or near Barcelona around 1320, is now online on the British Library's Hebrew Manuscript Collection. In addition to illustrations of biblical scenes and the story of the exodus, it includes a depiction of the Egyptian army as European knights; the search for leavened foods before the holiday of Passover (http://picpaste.com/f.15r_1.png); a Matsah panel with Islamic motives (http://picpaste.com/f.44v_1.png); and even some dragons (http://picpaste.com/f.67v_1.png).

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27210

Bibliography that is relevant for our forum: Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (New Haven, 2002); Julie A. Harris "Polemical Images in the Golden Haggadah (British Library, Add. MS 27210)", Medieval Encounters, 8, no. 2-3 (2002): 105-122; Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jewish Book Art between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Medieval Spain (Leiden, 2004).

Happy Holidays!

Liran

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Liran Yadgar
Ph.D. Candidate
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The University of Chicago
yadgar at uchicago.edu<mailto:yadgar at uchicago.edu>
Academia.edu website: http://chicago.academia.edu/LiranYadgar
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