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

location Budapest library MTAK s helfmark A 77/I-IV index n I

JA 1986/2 C 0 D ms. First Kaufmann Mishneh Torah origine France (N-E) town date 1296 and 1413 C 0 D ms. First Kaufmann Mishneh Torah origine France (N-E) town date 1296 and 1413 card 1:45 Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, with the list of the 613 precepts (I, fols 4-9v) , table of MT 507

5 contents (I, fols 10-16) and the Responsa of Maimonides added to the end of vol. IV (fols 144-169) in 1413. Vellum; IV volumes of I + 159 +1; I + 169 +1; I + 153 +1; I + 169 + I fols. 505 x 353-360mm (303-310 x 220-227mm)

. Written in square and round Ashkenazi script, 39-40 lines in 3 columns for the main text, up to 122 lines for the marginal commentaries, 69 to 73 lines in the responsa. Ruling in plummet, 2+2+2+2 vertical and 40-41 horizontal lines. Pricking noticeable in all margins. Running titles on all versos and sometimes on rectos and versos, 14 + 17 + 14 + 17 quires of 12 leaves each, except for vol. I, VII

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6 (five single leaves cut out from quire I of vol. II); vol. II, i

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6, XI

8, XII

8, XIII

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6; vol. III, V

8, VIII

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3 (three leaves cut out from quire I of vol.IV); vol.IV, 112-3

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8 (the last two were added in 1413). The composition of the quires shows that originally the manuscript was divided into 2 volumes. The present division into 4 volumes was made before 1592, when the manuscript was censored, as the censors signatures appear on the last pages of all four volumes. Catchwords decorated by pen-drawn grotesques and floral motifs.