'Next year in Jerusalem!': a Haggadah at Blickling Hall: a spectacular Haggadah, written and illuminated by Joseph ben David of Leipnik in 1739-40, is one of the most remarkable treasures in the library at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Emile Schrijver discsusses the importance of this manuscript, previously unknown to scholarship.
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Date: 11/1/2004
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Author: Schrijver, Emile
During the eighteenth century--some 400 years after the invention of printing--the craft of writing and the art of decorating Hebrew manuscripts flourished in central and northern Europe. Apart from daily and festival prayer books, of which several dozen survive, often decorated and meant primarily for synagogue use, these manuscripts were usually deluxe Passover rituals, Books of Psalms, prayer-books for the Sabbath and smaller collections of occasional prayers, such as circumcision ...
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