THE BROTHER HAGGADAH

The Haggadot commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts, and The 'Brother' Haggadah - so-called because of its close relationship to The Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John Rylands Libr ary, Manchester - is one of the finest of these to have survived. Created by Sephardi - or southern - artists and scribes in Catalon ia in the second quarter of the 14th century, it sets out the liturgy and sequence of the Passover Seder, a ritual feast by which Je wish fam...[Read more]