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Fol. 13: The Son who does not know how to ask is depicted within a panel at top left of the text space, next to the text it illustrates. The frontal figure is standing with feet in profile, arms and hands spread, in a vaulted room with red tiles and a yellow boarded ceiling. He wears a magenta robe and round magenta hat with a green brim.
Scrolls of fleshy acanthus leaves in magenta, green, blue and yellow ochre with powder gold extend from the left of the panel into the outer margin, dotted with burnished gold.
The Latin annotation by Erhard is written in red cursive script:
Next to: ושאינו יודע לשאול את פתח לו
Instructio multiplex interrogare nescientis
Manifold instructions for one who does not know how to ask.
See: General Document for acanthus branches and Appendix.
| Cod. hebr. 200 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 200)
A | Acanthus scroll
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Fig. 1: The Son who does not know how to ask
Tegernsee Haggadah
Munich, BSB Cod. hebr., fol. 13
Fig. 2: The Son who does not know how to ask
BarcelonaHaggadah
Barcelonamid-14th century
London, BL Add. 14761, fol. 35v
(Schonfield, facsimile 1992)
Fig. 3: The Son who does not know how to ask
LondonAshkenazi Haggadah
Meir Jaffe (scribe)
Bämler of Augsburg and Joel ben Simeon (artists)
Augsburg(?), c.1460
London, BL Add. 14762, fol. 9v
(Goldstein, facsimile 1985)
literature (M. Metzger 1973, p. 167).
The Son who does not know how to ask for whom "you should open the discussion", is depicted with his hands spread sideways similar to the Sephardi Barcelona Haggadah (figs. 1, 2). In Ashkenazi and Italo-Ashkenazi haggadot of the 15th century the fourth son is usually depicted as a fool, dressed as a jester and holding a mirror (fig. 3; Friedman 1985, pp. 16-40). According to M. Metzger, although the depiction of a fool is not related to the text of the haggadah, it arose from the popularity of this image in German folk
Fig. 1: The Son who does not know how to ask
Tegernsee Haggadah
Munich, BSB Cod. hebr., fol. 13
Fig. 2: The Son who does not know how to ask
BarcelonaHaggadah
Barcelonamid-14th century
London, BL Add. 14761, fol. 35v
(Schonfield, facsimile 1992)
Fig. 3: The Son who does not know how to ask
LondonAshkenazi Haggadah
Meir Jaffe (scribe)
Bämler of Augsburg and Joel ben Simeon (artists)
Augsburg(?), c.1460
London, BL Add. 14762, fol. 9v
(Goldstein, facsimile 1985)
The Son who does not know how to ask for whom "you should open the discussion", is depicted with his hands spread sideways similar to the Sephardi Barcelona Haggadah (figs. 1, 2). In Ashkenazi and Italo-Ashkenazi haggadot of the 15th century the fourth son is usually depicted as a fool, dressed as a jester and holding a mirror (fig. 3; Friedman 1985, pp. 16-40). According to M. Metzger, although the depiction of a fool is not related to the text of the haggadah, it arose from the popularity of this image in German folk literature (M. Metzger 1973, p. 167).