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Or 1087

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032-003376481
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Or 1087
Title:
Megilat Ester
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
20 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_1087 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Clarke, Adam, ca. 1762-1832
George Pope
J. Noble Coleman
John Noble Coleman
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 1087

Megilat Ester

Contents

The book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-20v
Title: Megilat Ester
Title: מגלת אסתר

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Extent: 20 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 286 × 159 mm.
Foliation:

20 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Previously in the form of scroll, now in book-form.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Uniform layout.

19 columns, first four with vowel-points.

The letters of שעטנזגץ provided with three tagin. One tag placed on the letters בדהחיק.

Majuscular letters in verses: 1:6, 9:9, 9:29; minuscular letters in verses: 9:7, 9:9.

The names of the sons of Haman arranged according to the rule.

Hand(s)

Sefardi aquare script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather. Gold tooled.

Spine title: 'Esther. Hebrew. Oriental 1087.'

History

Origin: 1400-1499 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

From the collection of Adam Clarke (b. 1762, d. 1832), Wesleyan Methodist minister and scholar: inscribed, folio 1v.

Folio 1v (paper flyleaf at the beginning of the manuscript): a note of ownership of J. Noble Coleman: his bookplate with Latin inscription: recte sed suaviter (inner upper cover). The manuscript was given to him by George Pope, having been bought from a bookseller in Bristol.

1872-05-25

Rev. John Noble Coleman (b. 1793, d.1872), Methodist missionary and scholar: bequeathed by him to the British Museum on 25 May 1872.

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_1087 (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. 38.

Funding of Cataloguing

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