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

photo subject PORTRAIT index no. I

JA 1986/2 subject PORTRAIT fol. 48 no illustr. 1 no. of card 13 technique PN situation IW reference lc, 2, 3, 6 in place + At the top of the*tendrils, above the title panel are the head of a 'man (on the left) inscribed "Abraham", the name of the patron of the manuscript, and that of 'woman (to the right) inscribed "Yentil"( ), probably his wife, the scribe's sister. Within the foliage *scrolls of the panel (Book Five, dealing with the laws of holiness, among which is a law forbidding sexual relations with a sister) are two further heads of a man and a woman. There are also 'animals, 'birds, 'fish, 'hybrids and 'grotesques in the panel and the tendrils. A 77/11 shelfmark MTAK library Budapest location type of ms. First origin Kaufmann Mishneh Torah France (N-E)