Haggadah (Sephardic) Manuscript Haggadah, for Passover Eve: Jewish order of service for domestic use. In the margins is micrographic decoration containing excerpts from Midrashim, and some prayers. Folios 12v to 50v contain the Hebrew text of Song of Songs, Ruth and Ecclesiastes, followed by the Torah reading for the first day of Passover (Exodus 12: 21-51). Haggadot from the 13th-15th centuries were often richly illuminated, but micrography in these and other service books is rare and more commonly found in Hebrew Bibles of the same period. Micrography in Hebrew Bibles often takes the form of a commentary on the main text, but in the case of this Haggadah the micrographic text comes from various sources. Some, although not all, are relevant to Passover but it does not seem to form a deliberate commentary. Other manuscripts with micrography show evidence of greater skill, so it has been suggested that this is an early attempt by the scribe at producing a single manuscript themselves. Otherwise, it was common in the medieval period for both Jewish and Western manuscripts to be produced by several different people – a scribe, an illuminator, an illustrator, a rubricator, etc. [Early 14th century]