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Egerton MS 67A

Record Id:
032-003371894
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Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 67A
Title:
Esther scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
6 membranes, 30 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_67A (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1500-1599
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Egerton MS 67A

Esther scroll

Contents

The Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Preceded by three benedictions, and followed by one benediction.

Partial borders between columns, with floral decorations, in watercolours.  

ff. 1r-15r

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 16th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 6 membranes, 30 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 162/315 × 4038 mm.

Collation

6 membranes, 1 wooden roller.

Condition

A few usage stains, and creases on the inner membranes.

Layout

Columns:30

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking.

Partial borders between columns, with floral decorations, in colours.  

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ. In the first nine columns the letters בדהחיק provided with only one tag.

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

Wooden roller (315mm high).

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 16th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

History

Origin: 1500-1599 16th century Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought by the British Museum in 1832, using the Bridgewater fund of £12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).

1832

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=Egerton_MS_67A (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. 26.

Funding of Cataloguing

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