The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard Von Pappenheim

by Erhard, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Christoph Markschies

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"