Img. ID: 199983
Fol. 10: At the centre of the page, a panel the width of the text column is divided into three compartments. In the middle, the initial word "This is" ((הא is written in large gold letters on a green background with feathery foliate scrolls in ink. A man and a woman are depicted in the right and left compartments. Each is seated on a yellow bench, the man holding three round pricked mazzot, the woman just one. Both figures are pointing at the mazzah with the right hand, though the man performs the Christian blessing (Shalev-Eyni, forthcoming facsimile). The woman is richly dressed in a green robe with a gold belt, and a blue-grey mantle. Her hair is covered with a white wimple, which frames her face. The man wears a red robe and a green mantle covers his head and back.
A Latin annotation by Erhard is written in red textualis in the lower margin:
Pertaining to: ויניח המצות בקערה ויגביה הקערה ואמר הא לחמא
Elevatio et ostensio azime
Elevating and showing the mazzah
See: General Document for acanthus branches and Appendix.
| Cod. hebr. 200 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 200)
O | Ornamentation: | Initial word, framed | Initial word panel (Not used; see: Initial word panel, Illustrative, Initial word panel, decorative)
O | Ornamentation: | Foliate and floral ornaments | Foliate scrolls
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Fig. 1: Bread of Affliction Tegernsee Haggadah Munich, BSB Cod. hebr. 200, fol. 10 |
Fig. 2: Bread of Affliction Yahuda Haggadah Franconia, 1465-1470 Jerusalem, IM MS 180/50, fol. 6 (Narkiss and Sed-Rajna, IJA 1978/3) |
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Fig. 3: Bread of Affliction Rothschild Miscellany Ferrara (?) 1470s Jerusalem, IM MS 180/51, fol. 156v (Rothschild Miscellany, facsimile 1989) |
Fig. 4: Bread of Affliction Sassoon Spanish Haggadah ProvenceorCatalonia, c.1320 Jerusalem, IM MS 180/41, fol. 21v (Jerusalem, CJA Documentation) |
Lifting up the mazzot, while reciting Ha Lahma Anya ("This is the bread of affliction") is the common custom of all Jewish communities. However, illustrations of this scene can include either the entire family sitting around the table, while the master lifts the plate with three mazzot (fig. 1), two and a half (the other half is hidden for "afikoman"; fig. 2), two halves of a mazzah (fig. 3) or just two, one each held by the man and the woman (fig. 4).
The depiction in the Tegernsee Haggadah (fig. 1) recalls that in the Sassoon Haggadah, where a man and woman flank the panel holding mazzot (fig. 4).