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Washington Haggadah
Facsimile Edition
Library of Congress, 1991
From the collections of the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress.
Written in square ashkenazic script and completed by Joel ben Simeon in 1478. It has painted initial-word panels, and many original marginal illustrations of the Passover ceremony and the Exodus story.
Illustration: Messiah on a white donkey at the gates of Jerusalem.
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Yale University Library
Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator
and Judy A. Schiff, Chief Research Archivist,
Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library
All contents copyright (C) 1995
Yale University Library
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