Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B315 : Passover Haggadah, with ritual instructions in French (Bouton Haggadah)
| Materyal türü | Yazma eser |
| Dil | Çok dilli |
| Kurum | Braginsky Collection |
| Kaynak | Europeana |
| Not | Magnificent manuscript with the text of the Haggadah; each page is decorated with rich borders of floral elements and with pen drawings in gold and lapis lazuli surrounding the text. Stylistically the decoration closely emulates Persian miniatures, especially works from the school of Shiraz of the period between 1560 and 1580. The execution of this work is attributed to Victor Bouton, born 1819 in Lorraine and active in Paris as illustrator, heraldic painter and engraver. This attribution is based on another, also sumptuously decorated manuscript signed by the artist, which Edmond James de Rothschild had commissioned as a gift for his mother and which contains a biographical note that this artist had received the enormous sum of 32,000 gold francs from a wealthy Jew for a Haggadah. The only illustration (f. 1v) depicts the celebration on the first evening of Passover; a group of five men and two women in oriental dress sit a the Seder table while the master of the house is reciting the benediction over the wine. |
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B315 : Passover Haggadah, with ritual instructions in French (Bouton Haggadah), Braginsky Collection, https://www.europeana.eu/item/92004/object_CHBCZ_B315________26F971B?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=mmurvess.