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 Mathematics and Astronomy Catalogue no. A 507 Collection of astronomical and mathematical treatises. Weisz described the works on ff. 1-27 as Sefer ha-Goralot

, Book of Lots, when in fact, they include two works on arithmetic. The next work, described by Weisz as astronomical tables by David Kalonymus, is David b. Jacob Meir Kalonymus' translation of John Simon of Zeeland's Mar'ot ha-Kokhavim. Other works not properly identified in the collection are an explanation of the astrolabe in forty chapters (pp. 144-185) and Gerard of Sabbioneta's lyyun be-Kokhavim ha-Shiva (pp. 116-141). Catalogue no. A 508 Described as a collection of astronomical treatises by Kalonymus b. David and a work by Immanuel b. Jacob Bonfils. The description in the IMHM includes twentyfour separate treatises, many of them short works by Kalonymus, by David b. Jacob Meir Kalonymus, by Hayyim b. David Kalonymus and others, among them by Ibn Merwan, John of Regimontanus (Koenigsberg), Mordecai Finzi, Abu Merwan and other anonymous authors. Poetry Catalogue no. A 549/3 Described as an anonymous work on medicine, the only work copied in the MS is netiv 4 from Shevilei Emunah by Meir Aldabi. Catalogue nos. A 550-551 The anonymous comedy listed in Weisz's description of these two MSS is Judah Sommo's Zahut Bedihuta de-Kiddushin generally considered the first play written in Hebrew. It was published by Jefim Schirmann. Varia Catalogue nos. A 554-555 The treatise on the Temple and the Temple services is by Malkiel Ashkenazi. It was printed from MS Mantua ebr. 57 by Abraham Sofer in his edition of Moses Cases' commentary on the tractate Middot of the Mishna. 25