Index of Jewish Art 4. vol: Illuminated Manuscripts of the Kaufmann Collection at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Különálló lapok tokban.

Introduction

11 SECTION I contains cards giving an analytical description of each manuscript. The descriptions are divided into four parts, each presented on a special card. The four kinds of cards are linked by an identical heading giving the main codicological data. Descriptions are presented as follows : the CODEX card gives the physical aspects of the manuscript and its history; the DECOR card lists the main kinds of decorations contained in the manuscript with a quantitative appreciation of each; the ICON cards describe single subjects in the order in which they appear in the present state of the manuscript. Since in these cards the subject has to appear in the heading, the main codicological data are placed at the bottom of the cards. Each description is printed with a photograph; the BIBL card gives a comprehensive bibliography of the manuscript. SECTION II is an alphabetical list of all subjects recorded in the iconographie cards of Section I. It contains the REFERENCE cards, listing the literary sources ( Bible, Midrash, liturgical texts) and the principal iconographie components described in the ICON cards of Section I; the INDEX computer print-outs listing all the manuscripts in which the above subjects appear.