Abstract
The library of Blickling Hall, a National Trust house in Blickling, Norfolk (England), holds an illustrated manuscript Passover Haggadah of the eighteenth century, that was hitherto unknown in the literature on decorated Hebrew manuscripts of the period.1 It is a Haggadah that combines the Ashkenazic and Sephardic rites and was copied and illustrated in Altona in 1739/40 by the well-known scribe/artist Joseph ben David of Leipnik (N.E. Moravia; Czech Republic). The manuscript most probably reached Blickling Hall as part of the bequest by Sir John Hobart, fifth Baronet and first Earl of Buckinghamshire, of the collection of his second cousin, Sir Richard Ellys of Nocton (23 December 1682–1742), consisting of important manuscripts and some 15.000 printed books. The Library probably arrived at Blickling in 1745.2
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