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Record Id:
032-003367252
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Add MS 11691
Title:
Esther scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 membrane, 17 columns.
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
D. Mocatta
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11691

Esther scroll

Contents

The Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-1r
Title: Megilat Ester
Title: מגלת אסתר

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 19th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 1 membrane, 17 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 162/315 × 4038 mm.

Collation

1 membranes, 1 ivory roller.

Condition

Parchment recto white with slight usage stain; verso naturally darker, and dirty at outermost end.

Small tear where membrane attached to short roller.

Edges slightly dirty, and tiny diagonal creases at edge. Edge slightly rolled over in part.

Abrasion/pressure mark at top inner end.

Some vertical creases toward inner end.

Ink flaky/abraded in first few columns, with some text illegible.

Ivory canister yellowing. Dirt in bone lacunae, turnings and inaccessible areas.

Layout

Columns:17

Ruled lines: 30 31

Written lines: 30 31

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on the letter ח.

The names of the sons of Haman arranged in 11 lines, in accordance with the rule.

Ivory roller (110mm high).

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 19th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

D. Mocatta: presented by him to the British Museum on 19 March 1840: inscribed on the verso.

1840-03-19

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11691 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 31.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL