É. Apor (ed.): David Kaufmann Memorial Volume: Papers Presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest.

RICHLER, Benjamin: Some Observations on Weisz's Catalogue of the Kaufmann Collection

BENJAMIN RICHLER Catalogue no. A 294 Weisz did not identify the author of the book Zekut Adam

, as David Rocquemartine. Liturgy Catalogue nos. A 371 and A 383 A Siddur in two parts. No. A 383 is the running continuation of no. A 371, which ends with the first words of the Ma'ariv service ve-hu rahum. No. A 383 begins with the word that follows: Barkhu. The script and the decorations and illustrations in both parts are identical and the name of the scribe Abraham is pointed out in both volumes. Both volumes belonged to Frau R. Gomperz, Kaufmann's mother-in-law. Perhaps Weisz can be blamed for not noticing that the two MSS he had described complemented each other. However, he could hardly have known of another example of a Kaufmann MS that was separated from a manuscript in another collection. MSS Montefiore 129 and 130 (formerly Halberstam 48-49) are two parts of a collectanea of over forty short works mainly on Halakha. Today, the MSS comprise 282 ff. The MS seems to have been written in the 15th century and its folios were numerated in Hebrew by a later hand, probably around 1600. The first part includes ff. 1158 (6 ff. are missing) and the second part includes ff. 160-175 and 219-333. The MS was acquired by Halberstam in 1864 or earlier as Nathan Coronel published parts of Sefer Amarcal from this MS in his Hamisha Kuntresim and signed the introduction in early 1864. MS Kaufmann A 76 includes two Halakhic works, Piskei Tosafot and the first part of Sefer Amarcal. The MS includes ff. 177-218 according to the Hebrew numeration, almost all the folios missing in the Halberstam MS between ff. 175 and 219. Kaufmann acquired this MS in 1887 according to his note at the beginning, which means that these quires must have been separated from the main part of the MS for at least twenty-five years. The Sefer Amarcal begins on f. 218v and someone noted on that page that Coronel had already published the continuation. Weisz, however, could not have known for certain that the Kaufmann MS was in fact part of the Halberstam MS complementing it at this point perfectly. One of the readers at the IMHM, Dr. Simcha Emmanuel, recently discovered this affiliation and brought it to our attention. 24