Description of British Library, Add MS 11831: Megilat Ester (מגלת אסתר) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-07-07 2020-07-07 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 11831: Megilat Ester (מגלת אסתר) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 11831: Megilat Ester (מגלת אסתר). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Small diagonal creases at edges. One usage stain. Ivory with lacunae in bone, and also small splits where dried out. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 11831 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11831 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Book of Esther. Hebrew Megilat Ester (מגלת אסתר) 1r מגלת אסתר 1r Megilat Ester

Parchment

 3 membranes, 18 columns.; 3 membranes, 18 columns. Columns: 18; ruled lines: 20; written lines: 20; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible stiching of membranes. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ, but not regularly. A few majuscular or minuscular letters. The names of the sons of Haman arranged in 11 lines, in accordance with the rule. Ivory roller (210mm high with canister). Sefardi square script of the 17th century.

BM in-house (boxed).

Between 1600 and 1699

 Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum from Rev. Thomas Butler on 05 July 1841: inscribed on verso.