Chag Sameach to everyone celebrating Passover which started this past weekend.

This page comes from our beautiful facsimile of British Library Manuscript Add. MS. 27210. This manuscript, c. 1320, is known as “The Golden Haggadah” due to its extensive and sumptuous illumination.

This page, fol. 15r, portrays Miriam (Moses’ sister), holding a timbrel in the upper right, while the other illustrations portray the preparations for the Passover festival typical of northern Spain in the 14th century: the master of the house distributing matzoh and sweets to the children, the family cleaning thoroughly and making sure there is no leavened bread in the house, and sheep being slaughtered for the Passover feast.