A Haggadah is the script for the seder ritual on the first nights of Passover. The word means “telling,” and the seder is a ritual for the telling of the Passover story—the Exodus from Egypt—in a particular rabbinic fashion. 

This Haggadah, produced in ca. 1300 in the Catalan region of Spain by an unknown scribe and artist, is an exceptional sample of a decorated Haggadah manuscript in the local tradition; it may be compared with the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, with which it shares a liturgical and artistic tradition. Its fine decorations and illustrations are a testament to the wealth of its patron and his concern for beautifying the tradition. Notably, the manuscript is unfinished (for unknown reasons), allowing us to view the process by which such manuscripts were created. 

Notable on this page is the hybrid human on the bottom with sword extended to protect themself from an attacking bat (unfinished). This image has nothing to do with the Haggadah; it is merely fanciful decoration. 

You will also notice, in the left margin, a later hand offering a correction to the circled text in the Haggadah text. The original scribed miscopied the text from which he was working, confusing the midrash (rabbinic scriptural interpretation) that is quoted here in the Haggadah.