JOELBEN SIMEON’S “MISSING LEAVES” * 108 In 1980 James Marrow, then a professor of art history at Yale University, realized that the inscription “MS ”,29 penciled inside the back cover of the haggadah, was consistent with the numbering system used in cataloguing the manuscript collection of Baron Edmond Further research revealed thatde Rothschild ( 1845 – 1934 ) of Paris . 2 the haggadah was one of the manuscripts stolen by the Nazis during World War II that belonged to Edmond’s son, James A . de Rothschild When Yale University notified Dorothy de Rothschild — . ) 1957 – 1878 ( James’s widow — that the lost codex was being housed in the Beinecke Library, she requested that it be donated to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem . Upon arrival there, it was renamed the Rothschild Haggadah . 3 The Ashkenazic - rite manuscript, written in square Ashkenazic script, lacks a colophon . As the name Yehudah, penned in red ink and emphasized by a foliate decoration above it, stands out at t...
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