Description of British Library, Add MS 11833: 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 11833: 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 11833: 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. Innermost margin yellowish, possibly from lying against roller. Slight stains on verso. Outer end darkened by mould and dirt, continuing at edges. Roller handle missing. 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 11833 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11833 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts The Book of Esther. Hebrew Megilat Ester (מגלת אסתר) 1r מגלת אסתר 1r Megilat Ester

Parchment

 3 membranes, 11 columns.; 3 membranes, 11 columns. Columns: 11; ruled lines: 39; written lines: 39; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible stiching of membranes. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ. The letter ע in the last word slightly 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 (587mm high). Sefardi square script of the 16th century.

BM in-house (boxed).

Between 1500 and 1599

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