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Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Add MS 8132 The Book of Esther.

Title

The Book of Esther.

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 8132
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1400 and 1499

Summary

The Book of Esther.

Notes

Creases.
A few usage stains.
Dirt along edges and slight tidemark near outer end.

Extent

10 membranes, 40 columns.; 10 membranes, 40 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

Layout

Columns: 40; ruled lines: 13; written lines: 13; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible pricking. Hair side and flesh side of membranes distinguishable. Three tagin on שעטנזגץ and ס, and one on בדהחיק. The letter ח arched sometimes, and occasionally בהםסרת at the end of a line. The letter ע flourished in the last word of the Megillah. No majuscular or minuscular letters. The names of the sons of Haman arranged in 6 lines. Ivory roller (150mm high). The first and part of the second membrane lined with green silk.

Script

Sefardi square script of the 15th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Presented to the British Museum by David Israel Brandon on 11 May 1822: inscribed on the verso.

Related resources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

Text

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URL

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Text

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