The Biographies of Illuminated Manuscript Haggadot

The nearly one-thousand-year-old Jewish ritual book for the Passover holiday is called a Haggadah. During the medieval period the only way these could be created was as unique, beautifully manuscripts decorated with gold, silver or brilliant colors. The pictorial content and style varied according to their geographic location in Europe.

Even after the invention of the printing press, the all...