Sarajevo Haggadah

Sarajevo Haggadah
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Sarajevo Haggadah page
Type	Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Passover Haggadah
Date	around 1350
Place of origin	Northern Spain, perhaps Barcelona
Language(s)	Hebrew
Material	Vellum, gold and pigments
Condition	good

The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder. It belongs to a group of Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Haggadahs, originating "somewhere in northern Spain",^[1] most likely city of Barcelona, around 1350, and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world.^[2]

The Haggadah is owned by the state and kept in National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.^[3] Its monetary value is undetermined, but a museum in Spain required that it be insured for $7 million before it could be transported to an exhibition there in 1992.^[4]

The Sarajevo Haggadah is inscribed a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina by KONS, on 17 January 2003, as movable cultural property.^[3] The Sarajevo Haggadah was submitted by Bosnia and Herzegovina for inclusion in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register and was included in 2017.^[5]