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Spain / Israel / Egypt: The Israelites crossing the Red Sea, tempera, gold and ink on parchment, from the Rylands Haggadah, Catalonia, c. 1300. John Rylands University Library, Manchester

Spain / Israel / Egypt: The Israelites crossing the Red Sea, tempera, gold and ink on parchment, from the Rylands Haggadah, Catalonia, c. 1300. John Rylands University Library, Manchester

The Rylands Haggadah, created in Catalonia sometime around 1330, is a masterpiece of Jewish Art.

In addition to pages of piyutim surrounded by ornate decorative and figurative micrography, richly decorated Haggadah text and blessings, there is a 13 page miniature cycle depicting the Exodus story from Moses at the Burning Bush to the Crossing of the Red Sea.