The Lombard Haggadah - Beau Livre

Milvia Bollati is Lecturer at the Università Cattolica di Milano. She is editor of the Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani (2004) and has published many books and articles on Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts, including the Libro d'ore Visconti (2003) and The Olivetan Gradual (2008). Her two recent monographs focus on Franciscan history and iconography : Gloriosos Franciscos : Una immagine di Francesco tra agiografia e storia (2012) and Francesco e la croce di San Damiano (2016).
Flora Cassen is Associate Professor of History and JMA and Sonja Van der Horst Fellow in Jewish History and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her publications on Italian Jewry include her book Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy : Religion, Politics, and the Power of Symbols (2017) as well as numerous articles. Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was responsible for the Parker Library from 2000 until 2016.
For twenty-five years he was in charge of all sales of medieval and illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby's. His numerous publications include the award-winning Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (2016) and The Medieval World at Our Fingertips : Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman (2018). Marc Michael Epstein is Professor on the Mattie M. Paschall (1899) & Norman Davis Chair in Religion and Visual Culture at Vassar College.
During the 1980s Epstein was Director of the Hebrew Books and Manuscripts division of Sotheby's Judaica department. He is the author and editor of award-winning books including The Medieval Haggadah : Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination (2011) and Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink : Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts (2015). Sandra Hindman is Professor Emerita of Art History, Northwestern University, and Founder and President of Les Enluminures.
She has written many books on medieval manuscripts and early printed books, including The Robert Lehman Collection, IV, Illuminations (1997), Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age : Recovery and Reconstruction (2011), and Books of Hours Reconsidered, with James Marrow (2013). Sharon Liberman Mintz is Curator of Jewish Art at the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary and specializes in the fields of Illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed books.
Over the course of 32 years at the Library she has curated more than 45 exhibitions and coauthored 10 exhibition catalogs. Her most recent publication is The Writing on the Wall : A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library (2015).