Passover Hagaddah - Brit Mateh Moshe - Berlin, 1701 - First Haggadah Published in Berlin - Unusually Wide Margins - ...

Passover Hagaddah - Brit Mateh Moshe - Berlin, 1701 - First Haggadah Published in Berlin - Unusually Wide Margins - Copy of the Author, with a Long Gloss in his Handwriting
Sefer Brit Mateh Moshe - Passover Hagaddah with Kabbalistic commentaries by R. Moshe ben Yeshaya Katz. Berlin, [1701]. First Haggadah published in Berlin.
Incomplete copy (without the title page and introduction), with particularly wide margins. Page 12a contains a long gloss in Ashkenazic handwriting contemporary to the printing, seemingly the handwriting of the author.
R. Moshe ben Yeshaya Katz was the nephew of R. Naftali Katz, rabbi of Posen. He left Vienna during the expulsion of the Jews in 1670, and wandered through several communities before settling in Berlin. In his introduction to his commentary on the Hagaddah he states that he planned to travel to Eretz Israel with R. Yehuda Hachassid but was unable to do so.
5-6, 5-104 leaves. (Originally: 6, 5-104 leaves. Missing: title page and pages 2-4 with the introduction). 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition, varies. Stains, wine stains and food stains. Tears and wear to a number of pages. Worn binding.
First Passover Hagaddah published in Berlin. Yaari 67; Otzar Hahagaddot 103.