The famous illuminated Passover manuscript kept at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Created around 1350, the manuscript probably originated in Catalonia, perhaps Barcelona, within the medieval Sephardic Jewish world. Written in Hebrew and Aramaic on calfskin vellum, it contains the text used during the Passover Seder alongside richly colored biblical illustrations, including scenes from Creation through the death of Moses.
Its name reflects its modern home in Sarajevo, but the book traveled widely after Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. It surfaced in Italy during the 16th century and was sold to Sarajevo's museum in 1894. During World War II, museum librarian Derviš Korkut helped conceal it from Nazi and Ustaše authorities; it later survived the Bosnian War in an underground bank vault.
A common mix-up is confusing it with the Golden Haggadah, another medieval Catalan manuscript now associated with the British Library. The Sarajevo Haggadah was listed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2017.