Bidspirit auction | (VENICE). Seder Hagadah shel Pesach.

(VENICE). Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. According to Aschkenazi rite. Hebrew with translation into Judeo-Italian. Leone da Modena’s abridged commentary of Abrabanel. Title within arch surrounded by four-part floral border. Each page profusely decorated including historiated initial letters all within a fine architectural frame. Formerly in the library of the late curator, Daniel M. Friedenberg (with his bookplate). ff. (26). Stained, few marginal repairs. Later vellum-backed Dutch marbled boards, rubbed at extremities. Folio. Housed in handsome solander-case. Yudlov 132. Venice, Alvise Bragadin, 1716. The House of Bragadin simultaneously printed three issues of this Passover Hagadah, all identical with the same layout and illustration cycle according to the custom of Aschkenaz, Rome and Spain (i.e. Ladino). All carried Judeo-Italian translation, the principle difference between them all was the textual rite of Grace after Meals.