(MEGILATH ESTHER)

Complete manuscript ‘HaMelech’ Esther Scroll on vellum. Composed on four membranes in 16 columns with additional introductory column bearing the Hebrew blessings recited before the reading of the Scroll. Engraved introductory column and columns of text within decorative borders with depictions of scenes from the Purim narrative. All in the Dutch style of the 18th-century. Length: 71 inches, height: 7.5 inches. Housed in pictorial tube.

Tel Aviv: Sinai Publishing circa 1968