• Megilat Esther (The scroll of Esther)
  מגילת אסתר

Uniform title:

• Bible. Esther. Hebrew

Extent:

• 1 roll in 5 membranes : parchment ; 2388 x 75 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Abstract:

• Contains the Book of Esther in Hebrew.

Subject:

• Bible Esther
• Manuscripts, Hebrew—New Jersey—Princeton
• Manuscripts
• Scrolls (information artifacts).
• Parchment

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9938628643506421

Curator's notes:

• Biblical Hebrew
  Eastern Europe?, 17th–19th century?, parchment

  The Scroll of Esther, a book from the Hebrew Bible, is read in synagogue on the holiday of Purim. It narrates the liberation of the Jews in the Persian Empire. Its name includes the Hebrew for scroll (megillah), and it is commonly illustrated. At one time every Jewish household was supposed to possess one, and hence many beautiful ones still exist.

  Gift of Jean P. J. Baltzell, 1950
  Princeton Hebrew MS. 8

  For further reading

  Clines, David J.A. The Esther scroll: the story of the story. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984.

Exhibit category:

• Commonalities
• Commonalities: Scrolls
• Scroll