Esther scroll (Hebrew MS 10)
Parchment Esther scroll, with wooden handle.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Hebrew MS 10
- Alternative Identifier(s): Crawford MS 10
- Title: Esther scroll
- Alternative Title(s): Megilat Ester; מגילת אסתר
- Date of Creation: 19th century (?)
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Enriqueta Rylands; Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- Extent: 8 membranes Leaf height: 257 mm, width: 546-620 mm. Written height: 188 mm, width: 152 mm.
- Material(s): Parchment
- Format: Scroll
- Condition:
A few marks where corrections were made.
- Binding:
Black box casing. Attached to wooden handle with three threads.
- Script:Ashkenazi square script
- Layout:
Two to three columns per membrane with 19 written lines: altogether 17 written columns.
Membrane 1: 2 columns (room equivalent to one column left blank at beginning); membranes 2-6: 3 columns each; membrane 7: 2 columns (penultimate one is wider than average, final one is narrower with space for another column left blank at the end).
Tagin on letters ש ,ע ,ט ,נ ,ן ,ז ,ג ,צ ,ץ.
Majuscule letters in verses: 1:6, 9:9, 9:29; minuscule letters in verses: 9:7, 9:9.Ruling in pencil is visible.
- Origin: Produced in the 19th century (?).
- Provenance:Box: Bookplate reading: "Endure Fort / Bibliotheca Lindesiana", with shelfmark "5 / C".
Membrane 1 side b: Handwritten label reading "Hebrew MSS / No. 10". - Acquisition: 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.
- Date of Acquisition: 1901
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Buda, Zsófia. "And the Scroll of Esther unrolls…" Rylands Blog, 14 March 2022.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Hebrew Manuscripts
- Classmark: Hebrew MS 10
- Alternative Identifier(s): Crawford MS 10
- Title: Esther scroll
- Alternative Title(s): Megilat Ester; מגילת אסתר
- Date of Creation: 19th century (?)
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Enriqueta Rylands; Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- Extent: 8 membranes Leaf height: 257 mm, width: 546-620 mm. Written height: 188 mm, width: 152 mm.
- Material(s): Parchment
- Format: Scroll
- Condition:
A few marks where corrections were made.
- Binding:
Black box casing. Attached to wooden handle with three threads.
- Script:Ashkenazi square script
- Layout:
Two to three columns per membrane with 19 written lines: altogether 17 written columns.
Membrane 1: 2 columns (room equivalent to one column left blank at beginning); membranes 2-6: 3 columns each; membrane 7: 2 columns (penultimate one is wider than average, final one is narrower with space for another column left blank at the end).
Tagin on letters ש ,ע ,ט ,נ ,ן ,ז ,ג ,צ ,ץ.
Majuscule letters in verses: 1:6, 9:9, 9:29; minuscule letters in verses: 9:7, 9:9.Ruling in pencil is visible.
- Origin: Produced in the 19th century (?).
- Provenance:Box: Bookplate reading: "Endure Fort / Bibliotheca Lindesiana", with shelfmark "5 / C".
Membrane 1 side b: Handwritten label reading "Hebrew MSS / No. 10". - Acquisition: 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.
- Date of Acquisition: 1901
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Buda, Zsófia. "And the Scroll of Esther unrolls…" Rylands Blog, 14 March 2022.
