• Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city of York in the lower margins and two kings pointing the text in the outer margin., Historia regum Britanniae (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-133), prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin, and the epistle to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln

Detail of a drawing of the skyline of the city ofYork in the lower margins and two kings pointing the text in the outer margin. Catchwords. Initials in red with blue or brown pen-flourishing, or in blue with red

• Initial-word panels with gold letters and foliate scrolls., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Decorated initial-word panels with foliate scrolls and two hybrids., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Seventeenth-century North-Italian morocco binding with elaborate blind-tooled borders., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• null, Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the council of Joseph's brothers (Gen. 37:26-27), Joseph being pulled out of the well (Gen. 37:28), smearing Joseph's coat with goat blood (Gen. 37:31), upper left: Joseph's brothers selling him to the Ishmaelites (Gen. 27:28), lower right: Joseph's brothers presenting the bloody coat to Jacob, Jacob tearing his clothes (Gen. 37:32-34), lower left: Joseph and Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39:12-14), Joseph interpreting the dreams of the butler and the baker (Gen. 40:9-19)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• f. 4v: full-page miniature, upper right: Loth and his daughters escaping from Sodom, upper left: the Sacrifice of Isaac, lower right: Jacob and Esau, lower left: Jacob's ladder; f. 5: full-page miniature, upper right: Jacob wrestling with an angel, upper left: Joseph's dream, lower right: Joseph relating his dream to his father and brothers, lower left: Joseph meeting an angel on the way to his brothers. Joseph's encounter with an angel is based on a midrashic explanation of Gen. 37:15, 'And a certain man found him' (Genesis Rabbah 84:14)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the increased labour of the Israelites, upper left: building of the two cities, lower right: Aaron's rod turning to a snake and swallowing the magicians's rod (Ex. 7:12), lower left: the first plague: blood., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the sixth plague: boils, upper left: the seventh plague: hail, Moses begging God to stop the plague of hail (Ex. 9:33), lower right: the eighth plague: locusts, lower left: the ninth plague: darkness, the Israelites despoiling the Egyptians (Ex. 12:35-36). According to the Exodus Rabbah, the Israelites despoiled the Egyptians under the cover of the darkness of the ninth plague (Ex. Rabbah 1:12)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: Moses' sister, Miriam seated on a hilltop watching the baby Moses, Pharaoh's daughter finding Moses (Ex. 2:4-6), upper left: Pharaoh's daughter presenting Moses to Pharaoh, lower right: an Egyptian smiting an Israelite, Moses slaughtering the Egyptian (Ex. 2:11-12), lower left: Moses saving the daughters of Midian (Ex. 2:17)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Full-page miniature, upper right: the tenth plague: the death of the first-born, the death of Pharaoh's first-born, the funeral of the first-born of the Israelites (or the Israelites taking Joseph's bier out of Egypt? (Ex. 13:19), upper left: the Israelites coming out of Egypt, lower right: the Egyptians pursuing the Israelites, lower left: the Israelites crossing the Red Sea., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

plague: the death of the first-born, the death of Pharaoh's first-born, the funeral of the first-born of the Israelites (or the Israelites taking Joseph's bier out of Egypt? (Ex. 13:19), upper left: the Israelites coming out of Egypt, lower right:

• The drunken Noah sleeping naked on the ground, his sons, while his sons, Japhet and Shem, are covering him with a robe (Gen. 9:23), detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• The hospitality of Abraham: Abraham hosting the three angels, with Sarah peeping out of the house, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

The hospitality of Abraham: Abraham hosting the three angels, with Sarah peeping out of the house, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis. The codex is called Golden Haggadah because of the diapered gold-leaf background of its miniatures. Ruling

• Nimrod ordering his servants to cast Abraham into the fiery furnace, while Abraham is saved by two angels, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Joseph's dream, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Jacob wrestling with an angel, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Joseph meeting an angel on the way to his brothers, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis. Joseph's encounter with an angel is based on a midrashic explanation of Gen. 37:15, 'And a certain man found him' (Genesis Rabbah 84:14)., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Joseph relating his dream to his father and brothers, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Sacrifice of Isaac, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem

• Loth and his daughters escaping from Sodom, detail of a miniature depicting scenes from Genesis., Haggadah for Passover (the 'Golden Haggadah'')

~The Censorship of Hebrew Books~ (New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1969), p. 104, and appendix § 112-117. Rabbi Joav Gallico of Asti, duchy of Savoy: gave the manuscript as a wedding present to his 'learned son-in-law Eliah', son of Menahem