É. Apor (ed.): David Kaufmann Memorial Volume: Papers Presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest.
ORMOS, István: David Kaufmann and his Collection
DAVID KAUFMANN AND HIS COLLECTION The lamps that appear in another panel, depicting the interior of a synagogue in the text, are indicative of a certain Middle Eastern connection (fol. 42r; fig. 23). This panel illustrates the morning prayer, which forms part of the Pesach ritual. 20 4 (This practice - no longer followed consisted of reciting the haggadah in the synagogue for the benefit of those who were unskilled in reciting it.) 20 5 These lamps must have been quite widespread in contemporary Catalonia because they appear not only in other places of our manuscript (fols 1 v; 6r) but in other Haggadahs of Catalonian origin too. 20 6 In connection with these lamps it may be noted that they are characteristic of Cairene mosques of the Mamluk period - the best known among them are perhaps the splendid specimens decorating the Mosque of Sultan Hasan. One must note that, in Egypt, the mosques at night were lit by lamps of glass or bronze. The former, at the best period, were of polychrome enamelled glass made in Syria. The art of making such lamps appears to have developed about A. D. 1250 and to have died out at the very beginning of the fifteenth century, probably owing to the disaster of 1401, when Damascus was captured by Timur, or Tamerlane, who led its architects and craftsmen away captive to embellish his capital Samarkand. Only about a hundred and fifty of these enamelled glass lamps have survived 20 4 For a detailed description of the scene see SFD-RAJNA, The Kaufmann Haggadah. Budapest 1990. 13. Cf. also MÜLLER - VON SCHLOSSER, Bilderhaggaden 1898. 197 [ad p. 72], NARKISS - SED-RAJNA 1988. Kaufmann Haggadah. Card No. 43. 20 5 Joseph GUTMANN, The Illuminated Medieval Passover Haggadah: Investigations and Research Problems = Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 7 (1965) 18 [of the offprint], 20 6 Similar lamps can be seen in the Sarajevo Haggadah, in the Haggadahs of the British Library shelf-marks Or. 2737 (fol. 20v) and 2884 (fol. 17v) - all three Haggadahs are of Spanish origin. Eugen WERBER, The Sarajevo Haggadah. Sarajevo 1988. fol. 34r [plates], fol. 31v [text]. NARKISS 1982. II. 21 [Fig. 81]. MÜLLER - VON SCHLOSSER, Die Haggadah 1898. 321. Ibid. Tafelband. Fol. 34. MÜLLER - VON SCHLOSSER, Bilderhaggaden 1898. 104105 [fol. 17v], Tafel VI, Fig. 1. In the latter place we can see the interior of a synagogue wholly reminiscent of ours (MS Brit. Mus. Or. 2884, fol. 17v). G. MARGOI.IOUTH'S description, according to which it shows the head of the family in a sort of "Mimbar", or pulpit, is probably false although the Hebrew caption says so itself. MÜLLER - VON SCHLOSSER, Bilderhaggaden 1898. 110. MUNKÁCSI'S effort at solving this riddle remains unsuccessful. Ernest [=Ernő] MUNKÁCSI, Ancient and Medieval Synagogues in Representations of the Fine Arts. In: Jubilee Volume in Honour of Prof. Bernhard Heller on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Ed. by Alexander Scheiber. Budapest 1 941. 246-247. Vid. also NARKISS 1982. I 75 [ad fol. 17v], II. 59 [fig. 187|. A similar interior can also be seen in the Catalonian Haggadah Add. 14761 in the British Library. Ibid. I. 83 [fol. 65v], II. 78 [fig. 2411. Cf. GUTMANN 1965. 18 [of the offprint]. 169
