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

Friar Erhard von Pappenheim [prologue]; David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni [eds.]

ISBN 10: 0271063998 / ISBN 13: 9780271063997

Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 2015

About this Item

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. 199 pp. Color and b&w illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets shows very light rubbing to corners. Touch of shelfwear to boards, and binding is sound and pages unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a Prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim
• Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271063998
• ISBN 13: 9780271063997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion / Theology
  • Medieval / Middle Ages
  • Judaica

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

David Stern is the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christoph Markschies is the Chair of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Sarit Shalev-Eyni is Professor of History of Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.