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

Title

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Sloane_MS_2642
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

Language

Origin

Summary

The Book of Esther.

Notes

• Excision at outermost end, and a sewn repair suggesting strap attached at some time and pulled away.
   
• Damp darkening along edges, plus a few tidemarks. Few usage stains.
   
• Trimming has cut into edge. One small edge loss, and excessive trim in places.
   
• A mezuzah, or door-phylactery, attached to the roll at the end (an extra membrane of 70 x 95mm attached at the inner end).
   

Extent

Support

Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Acquisition: Sir Hans Sloane: baronet, physician and collector (b. 1660, d. 1753): in his collection; acquired by the British Museum in 1753.
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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