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Swines in the Second Nuremberg Haggadah
Second Nuremberg Haggadah
The Second Nuremberg Haggadahis a liturgical manuscript for Passover. It was produced mid-fifteenth-century Ashkenaz. From the mid-nineteenth century until 1957, it was housed in the City Library of Nuremberg. In 1957, it became part of the Schocken Collection until 2004, when it was bought by David Sofer of London. Its decoration is compound. There are ritual depictions as well as biblical narratives enriched with midrashic material.
Depictions of pigs
There are two pigs in the manuscript, both of them constitute part of a building. On folio 7r, at the beginning of the text, Mah Nishtanah? (What makes this night different from all other nights?. This is a rhetorical question raised by a child. It is an introductory question to the retelling of the Exodus story. The folio is decorated with two scenes. The one in the outer margin is depicted a man within an imaginary tower which is placed onto the back of a roar. The figure is pouring out the second cup of wine (during Seder eve each participants should drink four cups of wine).
Bibliography
Kogman-Appel, Katrin. Die zweite Nürnberger und die Jehuda Haggada : jüdische Illustratoren zwischen Tradition und Fortschritt. Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1999.
K. Kogman-Appel. "The Iconography of the Biblical Cycle of the Second Nuremberg and the Yahuda Haggadot: Tradition and Innovation", in The Old Testament as Inspiration in Culture: International Academic Symposium – Prague, September 1995, edited by Jan Heller, Shemaryahu Talmon, Hana Hlaváčková and Martin Prudký, Prague, 2001.
K. Kogman-Appel. "The Second Nuremberg Haggadah and the Yahuda Haggadah: Were they Made by the Same Artist?", in: Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1993, Division D, vol. II, Jerusalem 1994, 25-32.
External links
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss-pr/mss_d_0076/
Notes
The digitalized version of the manuscript is available.
contributor: Zsofia Buda mphbuz01@phd.ceu.hu Central European University
