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

ISTVÁN ORMOS and about three quarters of them are in the possession of the Museum of Arab Art [=Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo today].'"

7 In the Mahzor produced in Germany, perhaps in Heilbronn, between 1370 and 1400 (MS Kaufmann A 387), in connection with one of the prayers of the Day of Atonement the artist depicted the scene when the male figure, coming from the sanctuary in accordance with Leviticus 16:22 and traditional imagination, casts the scapegoat from the cliff into the abyss, to Azazel, who appears in our illustration as a horned and clawed mountain demon or devil (fig. 24).

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9 approximately six-hundred fragments. They constitute an important collection of documents relating to all aspects of everyday life in medieval Egypt. We do not know how Kaufmann acquired his fragments, he never wrote on this subject.One of his students, Izidor Goldberger, tells us - and he may have heard this only from Kaufmann - that :"

7 Keppel Archibald Cameron CRESWELL, Architectural note. In: Count Patrice DE ZOGHEB, Our home in Cairo. With an architectural note by Professor k. A. C. CRESWELL. Alexandria [1941] 27-28. On the enamelled glass lamps see Max HERZ, Le Musée National du Caire = Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Ser. 3, v. 28 (1902) 497-505. Idem, [Gouvernement Egyptien. Comité de conservation des monuments de Vart arabe.] Catalogue raisonné des monuments exposes dans le Musée National de l'Art Arabé précédé d'un aperqu de l'histoire de V'architecture et des arts industrials en Egypte. Deuxiéme édition. Cairo 1906. 297-338. Idem, [Egyptian Government. Commission for the Preservation of Monuments of Arab Art.]. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Objects Exhibited in the National Museum of Arab Art Preceded by a Historical Sketch of the Architecture and Industrial Arts of the Arabs in Egypt. Second edition. Transl. by G. FOSTER SMITH. Cairo 1907. 275-312. According to DIEZ the technique of the production of enamelled glass lamps passed from Iraq to Syria, then to Egypt and from there to Venice. Ernst DIEZ, Die Kunst der islamischen Völker. [2nd edition?] Wildpark-Potsdam [no date (after 1926)]. 191. Esin ATIL, Renaissance of Islam. Art of the Mamluks. Washington, D.C. 1981. 118-124, esp. 120-121. These lamps - like other Marniuk glass products - were imitated in Europe at the end of the 19th century. Ibid. 123. A shabbat-lamp of this type originating from Damascus, with Hebrew inscription, is preserved in the Jewish Museum in London. SL:D-RAJNA 1976. 126. (According to the caption the lamp is made of glass but it seems rather to be made of silver.) 2

M KAUFMANN 1898. 270. NARKISS - SED-RAJNA 1988. The Heilbronn Mahzor. Card No. 25. On Azazel see Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem - New York 1971-1972. 111. 999-1000. Bibel-Lexikon 1981. 155-156 (s.v. Azazel). 20

9 See now Stefan C. REIF, A Jewish Archive from Cairo. London 2000. 2,

0 SCHEIBER Sándor [=Alexander SCHEIBER], A Kaufmann-geniza kutatása es jelentősege 170