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Auction 73 · Lot 304
(MEGILATH ESTHER)
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
printer
Sinai Publishing
Place
Tel Aviv
Publication
circa 1968
Description
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.
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