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

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON WEISZ'S CATALOGUE Catalogue no. A 183 Weisz called this treatise Emunah Muhletet but in fact it is the anonymous commentary on Ma'arekhet ha-Elohut (known as P"Z) found in many MSS. Catalogue no. A 188 Weisz left out the ethical will, Sefer ha-Zivui erroneously attributed to Moses b. Maimon on pp. 95-99 and, more important, letters concerning the Maimonidean controversy on pp. 142-170. Catalogue no. A 193 In general Weisz's descriptions of Lurianic kabbalistic MSS are not detailed. MS A 193, for instance, lists a collection of Vital's works which is very vague considering that Vital's opus runs into thousands of pages. Catalogue no. A 194 Weisz described the MS as Hayyim Vital's Ez Hayyim. In his catalogue he transcribed the opening sentence of the work and repeated it when he described MS A 235 but made no reference from one MS to the other. He described MS A 235 as a commentary on Kabbalah in two volumes and did not connect it with MS A 194, Ez Hayyim. In fact both MSS contain Sefer ha-Beriah by the Shabbatean Nathan of Gaza. MS A 194 contains the first part, and MS A 235 is another copy of both parts of the work. Catalogue no. A 206 Once again in a description of a Lurianic Kabbala, Weisz lists the first work Lehern min ha-Shamayim which extends until p. 118 in the MS but neglects to describe Isaac Luria's kavvanot which are copied on ff. 123-208 in the MS. He may have considered them part of the first treatise. Catalogue no. A 208 Here Weisz describes an anonymous treatise on the commandments as a mystical list of the commandments. In fact it is a work called Ta'amei ha-Mizvot attributed to Joseph Gikatilla or Isaac Farhi, a work that exists in many other MSS. Weisz is not at fault, of course. The treatise was not properly described nor its author identified for several decades after he completed the catalogue. Catalogue no. A 221 Weisz listed this MS as Meorot Natan

, but, in fact, only the first nine pages are from the beginning of this work and the bulk of the MS, pp. 10-682, are from Hayyim Vital's Mevo She'arim. 21