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The library of Blickling Hall, a National Trust house in Blickling, Norfolk (England), holds an illustrated manuscript Passover Haggadah of the eighteenth century, that was hitherto unknown in the literature on decorated Hebrew manuscripts of the period.1 It is a Haggadah that combines the Ashkenazic and Sephardic rites and was copied and illustrated in Altona in 1739/40 by the well-known scribe/artist Joseph ben David of Leipnik (N.E. Moravia; Czech Republic). The manuscript most probably reached Blickling Hall as part of the bequest by Sir John Hobart, fifth Baronet and first Earl of Buckinghamshire, of the collection of his second cousin, Sir Richard Ellys of Nocton (23 December 1682–1742), consisting of important manuscripts and some 15.000 printed books. The Library probably arrived at Blickling in 1745.2
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N. Barker, Treasures from the Libraries of the National Trust Country Houses No. 72 (New York 1999) 126; N. Barker, ‘The Libraries of the National Trust’, in N. Barker, Treasures from the Libraries of the National Trust Country Houses (New York 1999) 35-43: 35-37.
Data retrieved from my forthcoming Repertory of Decorated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Eighteenth Century.
See: I. Fishof, De]Jüdische Buchmalerei in Hamburg und Altona. Zur Geschichte der Illumination hebräischer Handschriften im 18. Jahrhundert. Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden 21 (Hamburg 1999), with extensive discussions of other works by the same scribe/artist and extensive bibliography.
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Schrijver, E.G.L. (2003). An Unknown Passover Haggadah by Joseph Ben David of Leipnik in the Library of Buckling Hall. In: Berger, S., Brocke, M., Zwiep, I., Fontaine, R., Munk, R. (eds) Zutot 2002. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0199-1_19
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