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Add MS 11832

Record Id:
040-003359343
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002041530
MDARK:
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TEI
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Add MS 11832
Title:
Esther scroll
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002041530
040-003359343
Is part of:
Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.

 

Add MS 11832 : Esther scroll
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032-002041530[0292]/040-003359343
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
7 membranes, 38 columns.
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11832 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1621
End Date:
1621
Date Range:
1621
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ben Mosheh
Thomas Butler
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11832

Esther scroll

Contents

The Book of Esther.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Partial borders between columns and outer margins, inhabited with floral and animal decorations, in colours.

ff. 1r-1v

Colophon: נכתב על ידי אברהם בן כהרר משה בשנת ש'פ'א'לפק'. f. 1r

Physical Description

Parchment scroll of the 17th century.
Form: scroll
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 7 membranes, 38 columns.
Dimensions (leaf): 120/210 × 4160 mm.

Collation

7 membranes lined with grey silk, 1 wooden roller.

Condition

Dirt at edges.

Stains from damp and grease, and a possible rust mark.

Some ink burn-through from green pigment, and some flaking losses, mostly near outer end of the scroll.

Layout

Columns:38

Ruled lines: 15

Written lines: 15

Uniform layout.

Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane.

Columns in the shape of circles.

Partial borders between columns and outer margins, inhabited, with floral and animal decorations, in colours.  

Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, one tag on the letters בדהחיק. The letter ח is arched throughout.

Several majuscular and minuscular letters.

The names of the sons of Haman arranged in 9 lines, contrary to the rule.

Wooden roller (210mm high).

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century. Avraham ben Mosheh: inscribed in the colophon at the end.

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed.

History

Origin: 1621 Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the British Museum by Rev. Thomas Butler on 05 July 1841: inscribed on verso.

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_11832 (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), I, no. 33.

Funding of Cataloguing

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