Pigs in the Second Nuremberg Haggadah
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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
Notes
Jerusalem, Schocken Institute Library ms 24087 Germany, 15th century The digitalized version of the manuscript is available. contributor: Zsofia Buda
Bibliography
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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.
