| Sarajevo Haggadah | |
|---|---|
| National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo | |
 Sarajevo Haggadah page | |
| Type | Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Passover Haggadah |
| Date | around 1350 |
| Place of origin | Catalonia, perhaps Barcelona |
| Language(s) | Hebrew |
| Material | Vellum, gold and pigments |
| Condition | good |
The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder. It belongs to a group of Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Haggadahs, originating "somewhere in northern Spain",[1] most likely the city of Barcelona, around 1350, and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world.[2]
The Haggadah is owned by the state and kept in National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.[3] Its monetary value is undetermined, but a museum in Spain required that it be insured for $7 million before it could be transported to an exhibition there in 1992.[4]
The Sarajevo Haggadah is inscribed a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by KONS, on 17 January 2003, as movable cultural property.[3] The Sarajevo Haggadah was submitted by Bosnia and Herzegovina for inclusion in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register and was included in 2017.[5]
- ^ Verber, Eugen (1983). The Sarajevo Haggadah. Prosveta. p. 20. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ Vishnitzer, Rachel (1922). "Illuminated Haggadahs". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 13 (2): 193–218. doi:10.2307/1451279. ISSN 0021-6682. JSTOR 1451279. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Sarajevo Haggadah, property of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the movable property". old.kons.gov.ba. Sarajevo: Commission to preserve national monuments. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
- ^ "The Sarajevo Haggadah". Haggadah.ba. Archived from the original on 19 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- ^ "The Sarajevo Haggadah manuscript". United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 9 October 2018.