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

Or 1047 Esther Scroll

Title

Esther Scroll

Funders

The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 1047
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Between 1600 and 1699

Place: Germany

Summary

The Book of Esther.

Notes

Parchment hard and brittle, with many splits and loss of alignment.

Extent

8 membranes, 14 columns.; 8 membranes, 14 columns.

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house (boxed).

Layout

Columns: 14; ruled lines: 26; written lines: 26; Uniform layout. Ruling by hard point, membrane by membrane. Visible stiching of membranes. A few majuscular or minuscular letters. The names of the sons of Haman arranged in 11 lines, in accordance with the rule. Wooden roller (505mm high).

Script

Ashkenazi square script of the 17th century.

Provenance

Acquisition: Acquired by the British Museum from Rev. M. Elkin on 24 February 1871: inscribed on verso.

Related resources

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

Licenses

Text

These images and the content of British Library Or 1047: Esther Scroll 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/.

URL

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Text

To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 1047: Esther Scroll. 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.

URL

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