p. xiii Add: The index volume of Freimann's Union Catalog was prpeared by Menahem Schmelzer.

p. 9, Arras: Read: Nos. 1103-1104 ... and 1105 (on Shehitah belonged to the Advielle collection and were destroyed in the fire that ravaged the library in 1915.

p. 13. Baer Read 1340-1511

p. 14, Add: Bashuysen, Heinrich Jacob van (1679-1750) His MS described by Wolf, ii, p. 301, is now Parma, Biblioteca Palatina MS 2948 (Cat. De Rossi 674).

p. 14, Basel, Add: 52 MSS were described in Die Handschriften der Universitaetsbibliothek Basel: "Die hebraeischen Handschriften von Joseph Prijs, redigert von Bernhard und David Prijs", Basel 1994. Nos. 53-83: Buxtorf family papers described by S.G. Burnett.

p. 17 Berlin, Hochschule line 2, read no. 3
line 3, No. 8 was offered for sale by a bookdealer in 1996.

p. 27 Budapest, Hungarian Academy Bibliographical notes on the catalogue by G. Jare, Rivista Israelitica, iii(1906), pp. 76-78.

p. 31 Cambridge, University Library CATALOGUES. Read: 979 Hebrew MSS, 20 Samaritan MSS and 67 MSS in other languages relating to Hebraica and Judaica were described by S.C. Reif in Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library,, Cambridge 1997.

p. 46, Dresden, Buecherei der Israelitischen Religionsgemeinde, Wuensche Bibliothek: Add: About twenty MSS, confiscated by the Nazis, from Jewish libraries in Dresden are now in Moscow, RSL.

p. 50-51, Eupatoria, Add: Some MSS from the Karaite National Library are now in Moscow, RSL, together with the Schneerson collection. Some of the Ne'eman family MSS are in St. Petersburg, Oriental Institute Library.

P. 51-52, Firkovich A number of Firkovich's MSS are now in St. Petersburg, Oriental Institute

p. 52, Firmian: Read, Firmian, Count ... Add: no. 418 is now Parma, Palatina Cod. Parm. 1834-5 (De Rossi 941 ) and no. 419 is Cod. Parm. 1998-2000 (De Rossi 942).

p. 53 Florence: Add; Cat. Assemani 528 is now MS Or. 42 (contents not identical with Assemani's description)

p. 54 Florence ...Riccardiana: Add: The library has two additional Hebrew MSS: Ricc. 26 and Ricc. 98.

p. 55, Frankfort, Stadt -und Universitaetsbibliothek. Add at end of entry: The quarto and folio MSS were described in vol. VI 1c (Stuttgart 1993)

p. 59, Gaster, Moses Add: Catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, The British Library, London , Reproduced from the manuscript and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leveen, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein. London 1996.

P. 63 Genizah, Add: About 260 fragments, mostly from very late MSS, recovered from the Mosseri cemetery in El-Basatin by a mission of Egyptian archaeologists, were described in Arabic in the catalogue Guide to the Latest Geniza Documents Collection (Cairo 1993) [compiled by H.M. El-Hawary] and edited by H.M. Rabie.

p. 70, Guenzburg family. Add: A supplementary article by M. Nadav was published in Jewish Studies,xxxv(1995), Hebr. section, pp.69-79

p. 75, Heidenheim, Wolf Add: New York, JTS MS 2287.

p. 81, Jablonski, Daniel E., Add. The MS described by Wolf, IV, pp. 485-486, is now Rostock, UB, MS Or. 38

p. 81. Add: Jacobson (Bookdealer in Breslau) The MS described by M. Brann in REJ, xxi(1890), pp. 270-277, is now New York, Columbia U. Gen. MS 153.

p. 86 Jerusalem Mishne Tora. Add: J. Hamburger published variant readings from this MS, Abweichungen des gedrukten Texte der Jad Hachasaka ... von einer Handschrift ... aus der Sammlung des marchese Carlo Trivulio .. (Frankfurt a.M., 1889).

p. 90 Kirchheim, Add. Kirchheim's copy of Midrash Tehillim (Venice 1546) with manuscript notes, used by S. Buber in his edition, is now Jerusalem, JNUL MS quart. 1404.

p. 99 Leningrad RNL, Call-Numbers: Read: The First Firkovich Collection includes MSS of general subject matter bearing the call-number Yevr. I (830 numbers), 15 biblical codices (Yevr. I B) numbered I B1 - I B20 (there are no nos. 9, 12, 15, 16 and 18), biblical scrolls and codices (Yevr. I Bibl.; nos. 1-47 are scrolls and 48-176 are codices), nine MSS, mainly Talmud and commentaries on the Bible (Yevr. I C), documents in Hebrew (Yevr. I D), in Turkish (Firk. Tur.) and in Polish (Firk. Pol.).
The Second Firkovich collection consist of MSS bearing the call-numbers Yevr. II A (2,942 MSS and fragments in Hebrew of general subject matter), Yevr. II B (1,582 Bibles and fragments on Parchment), Yevr. II C (725 Bibles on paper) , Yevr. II K (marriage contracts), Yevr.-Arab. I (4,933 Judaeo-Arabic MSS, mostly fragmentary), Yevr.-Arab. II (3430 Judaeo-Arabic MSS, mostly fragmentary, formerly known as Yevr.-Arab. N.S. [nova seria or new series], Arab.-Yevr. (377 MSS of Jewish interest in Arabic characters), Firk. Arab. (Arabic MSS), Firk. Arab. Dp (documents in Arabic on parchment), Firk Arab. D (documents in Arabic on paper) and Firk. Sam. (Samaritan MSS divided into fourteen sections according to subject). In addition to the Firkovich collections the library has Hebrew MSS bearing the call-numbers Yevr. III (155 fragments from the Antonin collection), Yevr. III B (22 biblical fragments) Yevr. IV or Yevr. N.S. (220 MSS from the Tischendorf and other collections including several photocopies of MSS fom other libraries) and Dorn (several MSS acquired before 1858).

p. 102, Levertoff MS Rab. 516 is now MS Rab. 1610. p. 111, London, Montefiore The entire collection of MSS was been reproduced on microfiche in 1995 and may be purchased from Emmett Publishers

p. 112,Luncz The MS of Sefat Emet, actually Leshon Limmudim by David ibn Yahya, described in the yearbook for 5603, pp. 119-120, is now New York, JTS MS 2891.

p. 114, Madrid, BN: see addition to p. 185 below

P. 119, Meiningen: The MS is now Valmadonna MS 4.

p. 120, Michael, H.J.: Add. A concordance to the new Mich. numbers is found in Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume I of Neubauer's catalogue. (Oxford 1994), pp.xi-xv.

p. 124, Montezinos A MS of responsa by Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg published by M. Block, Berlin 1891, is now in the University of Toronto.

p. 126, Moscow Russian State Library: Read: About 300 MSS confiscated by the Nazis from Jewish libraries such as Breslau, Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Berlin, Juedisch Gemeinde, Vienna, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Dresden Israelitische Gemeinde and Jewish libraries in Munich and Vilna were found during or after World War II and deposited in the Lenin State Library. Most of the pre-sixteenth century MSS that may have been in the library are apparently no longer there. . Some of the Vilna MSS may have been returned to the national library in Vilna in 1995.

p. 129 Add; Munich, Juedische Gemeinde About a dozen MSS from Jewish libraries in Munich, including some from the Cossmann Werner Bibliothek der Isr. Kultusgemeinde are now in Moscow, RSL.

p. 132 New York, General Theological Seminary The MS was sold to D. Sofer in 1995

p. 136 Nuremburg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum For 2170b read: 2107b.

p. 141, Oxford: Add: A Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to vol. I of Neubauer's catalogue was published by the library (Oxford, 1994). In addition to corrections and additions it also includes palaeographical descriptions of all the MSS described in vol. I prepared by M. Beit-Arie, indexes of censors, dated MSS, localized MSS and autographs.

P. 148, Add: Paris, Fondation Smith-Lesouef Two Hebrew MSS (nos. 250-251) from this collection are now in Paris, BN.

p. 149 Parma Read Libri Stampati ..., Parma 1812, pp. 79-82.

p. 156 Read Prague Zidovske Muzeum, Praha (Jewish Museum in Prague)

p. 162, Rome Comunita Israelitica add: 26 MSS were described by Sonne, Relazione. No. 12 in Sonne's list is now New York, JTS MS 2321, and no. 17 is MS 2325.

p. 164 Rossiana Read: Cat. Allony Loewinger.

p. 164 Roth. Add: 27 MSS were described by E. Frojmovic and F. felsenstein, in the exhibition Catalogue Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection, Leeds 1997. Rothschild family Add: Edmond de Rothschild's MSS were left to his three children. James de R. inherited over 80 MSS from his father and brought most of them to England. Nine Hebrew MSS left in France were looted by the Nazis.

p. 168 Sarajevo Haggadah

p. 170, Schoenbaum, Meir (Jerusalem) Owned many kabbalah MSS. Some are now in New York, JTS, at least one MS is in New York, ıYeshiva University and 2 MSS were in Jerusalem, Mossad ha-Rav Kook.

p. 179, Strasbourg, Bibliotheque Nationale et universitaire Add: Hebrew MSS found in the library earlier were probably destroyed when the library was bombed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War. Kennicott listed four Biblical MSS (nos. 145-148). Variant readings from these, now lost, MSS were recorded in MS Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 2292.

p. 180, Strashun: Some MSS belonging to the Strashun library were in Moscow RSL . Some of them may have been returned to the national library in Vilna.

p. 182, Sutro For "WPB" read WPA.

p. 183 Tarnopol MS New York, Yeshiva Univ. 1254 was formerly in the Tarnopol Library

P. 185, Toledo: Nine Hebrew MSS in the library (MSS I-14, I-15, I-17 - I-21 and 2-13) and six Biblical MSS from the Zelada collection formerly in Toledo and now in madrid, BN were also described at the end of the catalogue by K. Reinhardt and R. Gonzalvez, Catalogo de Codices Biblicos de la Catedral de Toledo (Madrid 1990).

p. 186, Treves Delete from "MS 8 ...Add. 1175".

p. 187, For Turici read Turicum. MS Turici = MS Zurich.

p. 190, Uffenbach: Some of Uffenbach's MSS did not reach the Hamburg library.

p. 190, Uppsala: Three MSS with lectures by O.F. Tullberg on the Bible were described by Zettersteen in Le Monde Oriental, ii(1907-8), pp. 75-77.

p. 194, Venice, Scuole Israelitiche: A pinkas described by I. Sonne in Kovez al-Yad, xv(1951), p. 218, is now New York, JTS, MS 8593.

p. 196, Vienna, Isr. Kulusgemeinde: Some MSS confiscated by the Nazis were brought to the Lenin State Library in Moscow. Over 50 MSS from the library (not all of them described by Schwarz) are still in the RSL in Moscow. About twenty additional MSS (mostly medieval) were recently offered for sale by bookdealers. They, too, may have formerly been in the RSL. See additions to pp. 248-251.

p. 210, Benzian

MSS: No. 47 = Moscow, Guenzburg 1160

p. 211 Geiger MSS

no. 8 was offered for sale by a bookdealer in 1996

pp. 213-217 MSS Breslau :

no. 8 = offered for sale in 1994
38 (11) = Moscow, RSL
81,1 = offered for sale in 1994
84 (174) = Moscow, RSL
113 (16) = Moscow, RSL
115 (267) = Moscow, RSL
121 (148) = Moscow, RSL
122 (60) = Moscow, RSL
Correct: 123 (346) = New York, Lehmann
139,2 (168) = Moscow, RSL
139,3 (164) = Moscow, RSL
139,7 (160) = Moscow, RSL
Correct: 139,15 (116) = Moscow, RSL
Correct: 142 (21) = Moscow, RSL
150 (112) = Moscow, RSL
151 (68) = Moscow, RSL
Correct: 166 (296) = New York, JTS MS 10169
173 (362) = Moscow, RSL
184 (220) = Moscow, RSL
192,5 (146) = Moscow
246 = offered for sale by a bookdealer in 1996
271 (310) = Moscow, RSL

pp. 227-231: MSS Carmoly:

76= Moscow, Guenzburg 910
107 = Moscow, Guenzburg 1657
121 = Moscow, Guenzburg 1121?
170 = Moscow, Guenzburg 1137
172 = Moscow, Guenzburg 1397

p. 236 MSS Ghirondi

Correct no. 103: =New York, JTS MS 3552

No. 36= Moscow, RSL 1128

p. 243 MSS Merzbacher

No. 95= Cod. hebr. fol. 16

pp. 244-248: MSS Sassoon:

30 = London, Valmadonna 6
33 = London Valmadonna 20e
49 = London, Valmadonna 7
55 = London, Valmadonna 16
79 = Cleveland, Reuven Dessler (purchased in 1994)
134 = London, Valmadonna 17
141-145 = London, Valmadonna 20b
149 = London, Valmadonna 13
161 = Cleveland, Reuven Dessler
263 = University of Toronto
337 = London, Valmadonna 14
438 = London Valmadonna 12
508 = U. of Toronto
453 = London, Valmadonna 20c
594 = London, Valmadonna 9
634 = London, Valmadonna 15
734 = London, Valmadonna
808 = London, Valmadonna 13a
923 = London, Valmadonna 8
964 = London, Valmadonna 11

p. 248Location of MSS Sussex
no. 5 = New York. JTS 8238

pp. 248-251 MSS in Cat. Schwarz, Austria (Mainly Vienna, Kultusgemeinde)

26 = offered for sale in Jerusalem
31 = " " " 1995
37- 38 = " " " "
48 = " " "
50 = Moscow, RSL
52 = offered for sale in Jerusalem
76= " " "
80 = " " "
85 = " " "
92 = New York. JTS (bought in 1996)
104 = offered for sale in Jerusalem, 1995
109 = Moscow, RSL
120 = " "
123 = " "
132 (part) = Moscow, RSL
134 = Moscow, RSL
201 = offered for sale in Jerusalem,
209 = Moscow ,RSL
223 = Private collection
227 = offered for sale in Jerusalem,
234 = offered for sale in Jerusalem, 1995
236 = " " " " "
250 = " " " "
251 = offered for sale in NY
265 = Moscow, RSL
275 = offered for sale in Jerusalem, 1995
289 = Moscow, RSL
300 (ff. 1-10) = Moscow, RSL