Talmud / Mishna · 11th c. · Italy · Codex · Mishna · Complete Manuscript
כתב יד קופמן של המשנה (MS A 50)
The Kaufman Manuscript of the Mishnah (MS A 50) — complete codex
Italy, 11th–12th c. · Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Kaufmann Collection)
The Kaufman Codex — the oldest extant complete manuscript of the entire Mishnah, written in Italy in the 11th or 12th century and preserved at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Kaufmann Collection, MS A 50). All six sedarim are present in a fully vocalized text that ranks among the most authoritative witnesses to the Mishnah's transmission. This online edition makes all 573 high-resolution leaf-images of the codex viewable page by page. A downloadable PDF facsimile is also available.
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