Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Feb 2015
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON RELIGION AND WRITING
February 24, 2015 – David M. Stern (University of Pennsylvania): The Monk’s Haggadah (Munich, BSB Cod. hebr. 200) and the Tale of its Modern Discovery
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich owns an illustrated Passover Haggadah produced in South Germany in the late fifteenth century which was once part of the library of the Monastery of St. Quirinus at Tegernsee (Germany). This Haggadah is remarkable both for its illustrations, and for a lengthy prologue, which was written by a contemporaneous Dominican friar. The talk will tell the history of this manuscript as well as the tale of how three modern scholars unraveled its complicated and astounding history.
A digital surrogate of the manuscript is available at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00014964-6
We will gather after 5.30 pm, either in the lobby, if the bar is open, or on the second floor, where dinner will follow at 6 pm. The talk will begin at 7:00 pm sharp. If you would like to join us for dinner at 6:00 pm, please RSVP to the seminar’s rapporteur Deborah Shulevitz ([email protected]) no later than Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Please note that the cost of dinner is $25, payable by check made out to “Columbia University.”