First Darmstadt Haggadah

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 Youth are subjects of full-page miniatures.

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

Die Darmstädter Pessach-Haggadah facsimile edition published by Propyläen Verlag, 1971-72
Die Darmstädter Pessach-Haggadah, codex orientalis 8 der Landesbibliothek zu Darmstadt facsimile edition published by Edition Leipzig, 1927-1928

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Alternative Titles: Die Pessach-Haggadah -- Seder Hagadah shel Pesaḥ -- Die Darmstädter Pessach Haggadah
Physical Features: Manuscript book on parchment − 35.5 × 24.5 cm − 58 fols.
Origin: ca. 1430 − Ulm (Germany)
Genre(s): Private Devotional Books
Style: Gothic
Language(s): Hebrew, Aramaic
Script(s): Hebrew Square Script
Scribe(s): Israel ben Meir of Heidelberg
Content: Texts with instructions for the Jewish seder, the ritual banquet of the first night(s) of Passover
Illumination: 2 full-page miniatures; 4 historiated borders; 4 inhabited and decorated borders; 24 word panels

Manuscript book description compiled by Britt Boler Hunter.

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#1 Die Darmstädter Pessach-Haggadah

Frankfurt/Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1971-72

Commentary (German, English) by Gutmann, Joseph; Knaus, Hermann; Pieper, Paul; Zimmermann, Erich

Limited Edition: 600 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.

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This edition was published in two versions: 50 leather-bound copies and 550 linen-bound copies.

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

Commentary (German) by Italiener, Bruno; Freimann, Aron; Mayer, August L.; Schmidt, Adolf

Limited Edition: 350 copies

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Half-bound in leather.

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