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The Monk's Haggadah

A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard Von Pappenheim

by David Stern, Christoph Markschies

  • Hardback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: Penn State University Press
  • 18.6 x 26 x 2.3 cm

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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 in early modern Europe and an extraordinary window onto a fifteenth-century Christian's perception of Jews and Judaism. The Monk's Haggadah brings together a facsimile edition of the codex in color, a critical edition of the Latin text of Erhard's prologue, an English translation of the Latin text, and a translation of the Hebrew text of the Haggadah. Additionally, the volume's editors provide historical context, explore the codicology, illustration, and patronage of the volume, and describe its Christian theological background. An absolutely unique document, this Haggadah stands to change many long-held conceptions about Jewish-Christian relations in the late Middle Ages and early modernity.

  • Title

    The Monk's Haggadah

  • Authors

    David Stern +2

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Penn State University Press

  • Published

    February 2015

  • Weight

    1040g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    18.6 x 26 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780271063997

  • ISBN-10

    0271063998

  • Eden Code

    4536153

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