Haggadah (Mantua)

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan

Giacomo Rufinelli

1560

Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan

16th Century

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan was a shamash in a synagogue in Mantua, Italy, who supervised the printing of a Haggadah there, in the print shop of Giacomo Rufinelli, in 1560.

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Giacomo Rufinelli

16th Century

Giacomo Rufinelli was an Italian printer. From his father Venturino Ruffinelli, he inherited the post of Printer to the Duke of Mantua. After quarreling with the duke, he was stripped of this honor and from 1584 was forbidden to print books, though he continued to print some works illicitly. He then worked in Rome with two well-known printers.

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