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Or 2086
Title:
Esther scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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5 membranes, 14 columns.
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Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
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CE
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Material Type:
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Not Public Record(s)
Names:
August Meyrick
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2086

Esther scroll

Contents

The Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Physical Description

Leather scroll of the 15th century.
Form: scroll
Material: leather
Support: Leather
Extent: 5 membranes, 14 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 212/395 × 2350 mm.

Collation

5 membranes, with wooden roller.

Condition

Large losses to upper finial of wooden roller; small losses and cracks to lower handle.

A few edge tears and a pierced hole to one membrane.

Layout

Columns:14

Ruled lines: 23 25

Written lines: 23 25

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible stiching of membranes.

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on בדהחיק. The letter פ flourished in 9:7,8,9 is flourished.

A few majuscular or minuscular letters.

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

Wooden roller (395mm high).

Hand(s)

Sefardi square script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1878-10-26

Presented to the British Museum from Maj.-Gen. August Meyrick on 26 October 1878.

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=Or_2086 (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. 39.

Funding of Cataloguing

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