Birds' Head Haggadah

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:manuscript
gptkbp:associatedWith Ashkenazi Jewish community
gptkbp:catalogueNumber MS 180/57
gptkbp:contains commentary
prayers
ritual instructions
biblical scenes
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Southern_Germany
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Israel_Museum
gptkb:Jerusalem
gptkbp:dateCreated circa 1300
gptkbp:depicts biblical scenes
Jewish men with bird heads
Jewish women with blank faces
gptkbp:digitizedBy gptkb:Israel_Museum
gptkbp:exhibitedAt gptkb:Israel_Museum
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Birds' Head Haggadah
gptkbp:language gptkb:Hebrew
gptkbp:material parchment
gptkbp:notableFeature earliest surviving illustrated Haggadah
human figures with bird heads
gptkbp:pages 47
gptkbp:significance controversial for depiction of Jews as birds
important for study of Jewish iconography
gptkbp:style medieval Jewish art
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Passover_Seder
gptkbp:type gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4