O VERIFIKACIJI SARAJEVSKE HAGADE U BEČU (1894 - 1913)
ABOUT VERIFICATION OF THE SARAJEVO HAGADA IN VIENNA (1894-1913)

Summary/Abstract: The Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (a.k.a. the Land’s Museum) in Sarajevo purchased in 1894 an illustrated manuscript of Hagada, but soon after that the Hagada was transferred to Vienna in order to establish its author and the time and place it had been written. The expert analysis was done by two scientists (Dr Julius Schlosser and Dr David H. Mueller). They informed the public about the existence of Hagada as early as in 1895, and, in 1898, the Court University Library in Vienna printed a publication entitled The Hagada of Sarajevo. From that moment the original Sarajevo Hagada disappeared. In 1911, the Management of the Land’s Museum requested to get the original manuscript back, which was followed by an intensive correspondence. Given that the original manuscript could not be tracked down, there were speculation that it was sold to someone in London. After comprehensive search that involved the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the original was found in a closet in the Ministry of Finance, rolled in a scroll market as “The Hebrew Code’’. Finally by the end of 1913, it was brought back to Sarajevo. In 2002, after being hidden during severel 20th century wars, this manuscript has got a safe and secure place in a special room of the Land’s Museum of Sarajevo.

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