(MEGILATH ESTHER)

Dutch

18th-century

Complete Scroll Scroll of Esther accomplished in black ink on vellum. Written in 17 columns on 4 membranes;the first and last columns being panels for the blessing pre- and post-chanting of the Megillah. The text set within elaborately engraved historiated borders depicting the characters and events that populate the Esther story, medallion vignette portraits above.

Another copy of this Esther Scroll was sold at Christie’s, Amsterdam, 18 June 2002. lot 390.

Provenance: The Richard Levy Collection, Boca Raton, Florida. For a remarkably similar example see, Catalogue Raisonne de la Collection Juive de Musee de Cluny, no. 71.