Extent: 1 roll (5 membranes) : parchment ; 1600 x 380 mm
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Ms. roll. In Hebrew. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Collation: Parchment, scroll of 3 membranes, sewn together with no overlap. Layout: 10 columns, 37 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Script: Written in a square Ashkenazic script in black ink. Decoration: Fine pen-flourishing at tops of some letters. Binding: Rolled, no spindles, housed in ca. 19th-century marbled cardboard tube, housed in tan cloth-covered tube with title label reading "BOOK OF ESTHER/ C. 1550" Origin: Written in Germany, mid-16th century. Provenance: With ex libris label reading "360 years old. Belongs to Mrs. Frank C. Miller... Roxbury, Mass. 1914." Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Mrs. Frank Miller in 1915. Call number: MS pf Med.211. Bibliography: More Books/BPL Quarterly (1928): 74.
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