Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception
During the evenings of the Passover Seder, it is traditional to drink four cups of wine, and eat or gaze at different foods symbolising certain aspects of the enslavement of the Jews in Egypt and their Exodus. And you pour some wine just like the men shown below in the fourteenth-century Hispano-Moresque Haggadah from Spain …
Participants around the laid Seder table reciting the Haggadah and raising cups of wine. Barcelona Haggadah, Spain, 14th century (Add MS 14761, f. 28v)
The Seder continues, going through the Haggadah with the retelling of the Exodus story.
Source: blogs.bl.uk