R. Gergely (ed.): Microcard catalogue of the rare hebrew codices, manuscripts and anciens prints in the Kaufmann Collection reproduced on microcards

Prof. Ignácz Goldziher's lecture

to these books by the Italian authorities which opposed their forwarding for a long time. It was three times that they denied their export until finally an eminent intervention succeded in obtaining the permission of forwarding the codices to Budapest, by establishing a legal cause founded on the book form of the art treasures. The artistic value of these codices was expounded by David Kaufman himself in 1898 in the appendix he contributed to the monography of Die Haggadah von Sarajevo, pp. 254—311. This paper, the most important parts of which are taken over into the catalogue of Dr. M

. Weisz, is the most reliable guide for the study of the collection. The present writer can not undertake even a general description of the collection. * * The Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences starts the facsimile publication of the illuminated codices, the first piece of them, a splendid illustrated Haggadah from the 14-th century is just came out* (W. M. Katalog Nr. A/422.) The microcard copy of the catalogue published by Dr. M. Weisz is the first item of the new catalogue. The above mentioned first catalogue worked up the complete material of the Kaufmann Library in a serviceable manner, although it is not quite perfect, the idea was to offer a temporary work, useful as long! as a more systematic catalogue is compiled. The grouping, numbering and partly the text of the new one, have been taken over from the first catalogue which appeared in German. * The Kaufmann Haggadah. Facsimile Edition of MS 422 of the Kaufmann Collection. Editor: R. Gergely. With an introduction by Prof. Alexander Scheiber. 720 bibliophile copies, on 108 pages, sized 20 X 25 cm. Budapest, 1957. Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 21