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   "value": "<p>Several erasures, rewritings and corrections.<\/p><p>Compare layout and script to <a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-HEBREW-00003'>Manchester, JRL, Hebrew MS 3<\/a>.<\/p>"
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   "value": "Bland, Nathaniel (1803\u20131865); Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, Earl of (1812\u20131880); Enriqueta Rylands; Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913"
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   "value": "Acquired by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall and later bequeatehed to the The John Rylands Library."
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   "label": "Title",
   "value": "Esther scroll"
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   "value": "<p>24 or 25 written lines per membrane. Membrane 1: 3 columns (space for a further column left blank at the beginning), membrane 2: 2 columns, membranes 3-4: 3 columns each, membrane 5-6: 2 columns each, membrane 7: 3 columns, and membrane 8 has 1 column; altogether 19 written columns. <\/p>Majuscule letters in verses: 1:6 (very slightly) and 9:29; minuscule letters in verses: 9:7 and 9:9 (only the zayin).<p>Hard point ruling. Visible pricking and stitching.<\/p>"
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   "label": "Funding",
   "value": ""
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   "label": "Bookseller(s)",
   "value": "Quaritch, Bernard (1819\u20131899)"
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   "label": "Date of Creation",
   "value": "18th-19th century (?)"
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   "value": "Produced in the 18th-19th century (?); according to Albert (Abraham) Löwy probably 17th century."
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   "label": "Script",
   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>Hebrew square script<\/div><\/div>"
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   "label": "Data Source(s)",
   "value": "Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Nienke Valk.<p>Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.<\/p>"
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  {
   "label": "Alternative Title(s)",
   "value": "Megilat Ester; מגילת אסתר"
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   "label": "Language(s)",
   "value": "Hebrew"
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   "label": "Extent",
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'>On previous owner Nathaniel Bland, see <a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/912636343'>Schmidt, Jan. A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester (Leiden: Brill, 2011), p. 18. <\/a><\/div><\/div><br /><div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'><a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://rylandscollections.com/2022/03/17/and-the-scroll-of-esther-unrolls/'>Buda, Zsófia. \"And the Scroll of Esther unrolls\u2026\" <\/a> Rylands Blog, 14 March 2022.<\/div><\/div><br />"
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   "value": "<div>Box: Bookplate reading: \"Endure Fort / Bibliotheca Lindesiana\", with shelfmark \"F / 7\".<br /><p>Formerly in the collection of the Persian scholar Nathaniel Bland (1803\u20131865), whose oriental manuscripts were sold after his death through Bernard Quaritch (1819\u20131899) in 1866 to Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812\u20131880).<\/p> Side b of membrane 1: Printed label corrected by hand reading \"BLAND MSS. No. 829\", with BLAND and 829 crossed out, and written in pencil \"Hebrew / 2\"; and in black ink \"155\".<br />Membrane 1 side a: Handwritten in pencil on first blank column \"64\".<br /><\/div><br />"
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