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Sloane MS 2641

Record Id:
032-003375787
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Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2641
Title:
Esther scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
3 membranes, 17 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2641 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Sir Hans Sloane
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Sloane MS 2641

Esther scroll

Contents

The Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Some reading differ from the masoretic כתיב.

The Megillah is preceded by two benedictions.

Full borders around columns, inhabited with floral decorations, in watercolours.  

ff. 1r-1v

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 17th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 3 membranes, 17 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 114/140/240 × 1850 mm.

Collation

3 membranes, with wooden roller and wooden case (+ short paper strip for attachment to roller).

Condition

The wooden case has minor losses to handle and ends.

The outermost membrane has non-sewn joint at centre, silked on recto to contain pigments.

Layout

Columns:17

Ruled lines: 15 21

Written lines: 15 21

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Visible pricking.

No tagin on שעטנזגץ, and one on the letter ח of חור, 1:6.

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

Sections 3:8 and 4:1 are open.

Wooden roller and case (on new core: 140mm long, old case: 240mm long).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century. First seven columns due to a later hand.

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century Germany?

Provenance and Acquisition

1753

Sir Hans Sloane: baronet, physician and collector (b. 1660, d. 1753): in his collection; acquired by the British Museum in 1753.

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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2641 (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. 27.

Funding of Cataloguing

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