hominisaevum:

From The Ashkenazi Haggadah, a Hebrew manuscript of the mid-15th century from the Collections of the British Library written and illuminated by Joel Ben Simeon called Feibusch Ashkenazi. (With a commentary attributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms.)
Germany, S. (Ulm?); c. 1460
Miniature of a man searching for leaven in a cupboard. He is brushing crumbs from the cupboard with some feathers. The miniature is place in the outer margin, next to the initial word at the beginning of the passage, ‘On the day preceding the fourteenth [of Nisan] you search for leaven by the light of a lamp’.

hominisaevum:

From The Ashkenazi Haggadah, a Hebrew manuscript of the mid-15th century from the Collections of the British Library written and illuminated by Joel Ben Simeon called Feibusch Ashkenazi. (With a commentary attributed to Eleazar Ben Judah of Worms.)

Germany, S. (Ulm?); c. 1460

Miniature of a man searching for leaven in a cupboard. He is brushing crumbs from the cupboard with some feathers. The miniature is place in the outer margin, next to the initial word at the beginning of the passage, ‘On the day preceding the fourteenth [of Nisan] you search for leaven by the light of a lamp’.

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