The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard Von Pappenheim
(Part of the Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Series)
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In 1489, a magnificent illustrated Passover Haggadah was sent as a bequest to the Monastery of Saint Quirinus at Tegernsee in southern Germany. Shortly afterwards, the monastery's librarian sent the book to a Dominican friar named Erhard von Pappenheim, a Hebraist and expert on Jewish practice, and asked him to write a prologue. In response, Erhard wrote a remarkable treatise that is arguably the earliest quasi-ethnographic account of Jewish practice...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0271063998
ISBN13:9780271063997
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:2.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 10.2"
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