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LOT 0413
Hebrew Vellum Manuscript Scroll
18TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
125 in. (157 grams, 3.2 m).
Over three meters long with dense blocks of Hebrew (Ktav Ashuri) script on rectangular panels folded or sewn together at the lateral edges; the script with niqqud diacritics, part of the Book of Esther.
Provenance
Acquired in Cambridgeshire, UK, in the 1990s.
From a Suffolk, UK, private collection.
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