The Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile

By: Marc Michael Epstein

Commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages, the Haggadot are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts. The Brother Haggadah--so-called because of its close, fraternal relationship to the Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester--is one of the finest of these to have survived. Created by Sephardi (or "southern") artists and scribes in Catalonia in the second quarter of the fourteenth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500110298
• ISBN13: 9780500110294
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 4.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 13.4" x 10.1"