Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

The Rothschild Haggadah. 2 Vols. [SIGNED FACSIMILE]

Schonfield, Jeremy (ed. & transl.); Raphael Loewe (Translation)

London: Facsimile Editions, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/400 Quarto. Unpaginated, 78 [1]pp. White goatskin vellum with companion volume in blue paper boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Signed certificate of authenticity from the Israel Museum and the publisher laid in. Copy #42 from a limited edition of 400 (plus 150 numbered I to CL), handwritten in pencil on the colophon sheet laid in at the front of the facsimile volume.

This gorgeous facsimile edition of the unique Rothschild Haggadah is, according to its publishers statement, bound in vellum, "printed on specially milled parchment paper in up to nine colors", and decorated with gold metal foil and gold metal powder by craftsmen to reproduce the flat gold and burnished gold of the original manuscript. The Haggadah is considered among the most exquisite sections of the larger compendium manuscript known as the Rothschild Miscellany, originally created in Northern Italy in 1479. It is acclaimed as among the most lavish of all Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, and its parent volume, a manuscript of unrivaled in richness and scope. The compendium is currently held in the collection of the Israel Museum.

Accompanying the facsimile volume is companion volume containing a full English translation of the Haggadah text, along with critical and scholarly analysis.

In Hebrew and English.

Minor smudges the bindings. Bindings in very good+ to near fine, interiors in fine condition overall. vg+ to fine. Item #55264
ISBN: 0948223189

Price: $2,500.00