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<p>In the lower section of the text column, below the megillah benedictions, are five figures identified by inscribed banners. They stand in a row from right to left as follows: Haman, Mordecai, Zeresh, Esther and Harbonah. The figures are dressed in lavish period costume in green and red. Haman has a long, curling moustache and wears a long robe while Harbonah is clean-shaven and wears breeches and a long jacket. Mordecai has a long beard and wears black and white traditional Jewish costume.</p>
Name/Title
JHI Hanging of Haman Esther Scroll | Unknown
Object Detail
Col. 14
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Date
Mid-18th century
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Material / Technique
Ink and tempera on parchment
Material Stucture
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Material Cloth
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Measurements
The scroll: 280 x ca. 2910 mm.
The length of the membranes in the scroll: 1) ca. 625 mm, 2) ca. 545 mm, 3) 595 mm, 4) ca. 590 mm, 5) ca. 490 mm, 6) 65 mm.
Dimensions of the selected details in the scroll:
- upper margins: 27 mm (height);
- lower margins: 23 mm (height);
- opening decoration: 280x168 mm;
- final decoration with five figures: 100x112 mm;
- decorations between the text panels: ca. 25 mm (width);
- gallows on which Haman is hanged is ca. 155 high and the gallows on which his sons are hanged is ca. 65 mm high;
- an average text panel (inside): 162 x ca. 222 mm;
- an average letter: 4 mm;
- letters in col. 11: 10 mm;
- letter in words ברוך: ca. 17 mm;
- spaces between the lines: 4 mm.
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Condition

In general, the manuscript is well preserved, although there are three holes in the first membrane.

The text is preserved in good condition, except for the places where the membranes are folded (e.g. on sheet no. 3).

In some places, the paints are flaked off.

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Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
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Ornamentation
Custom
Contents

Book of Esther, benedictions recited before and after the Megillah reading, and a liturgical poem for Purim

Codicology

The scroll is formed of 6 sheets containing opening benedictions + 14 columns of the text with 27-29 lines each, except for col. 11 which includes 11 lines divided into two half-columns + final benediction and liturgical poem Asher Heni.

The number of columns per sheet: no. 1 - benedictions + 2, nos. 2-4 - 3, no. 5 - 2 + benediction and liturgical poem, no. 6 is blank.

The text is written in Hebrew square script with tagin in black ink on the flesh side of parchment sheets that are rather grey and suede. The membranes differ in thickness but they all are rather thin and not stiff. Both sides of the membranes are similar but the side of the text and decorations is brighter than the blank side.

The letters ח (Es. 1:6) and ת (Es. 9:29) are enlarged; they are 6 mm high. Other enlarged and diminished letters are included in col. 11.

Every column starts with the word המלך which are written just under the arches.

In cols. 10 and 14 there are numerous elongated letters.

The ruling is made with a hardpoint and is well visible on the blank side of the membranes.

The pricking is visible on the membranes' edges.

The sheets in the scroll are stitched together but in the upper and lower parts of the membranes, additional reinforcement was used. They are parchment strips glued to the membranes and colored with the same paints, so they are barely noticeable.

Scribes
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Ruling
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Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Coin Year
Denomination
Signature
Colophon

The Hebrew colophon of the artist-scribe is placed at the end of the scroll. It says: סליק המגילה אני הצייר נתן בן הרר יוסף סופר סתם בקק זלאטווי "This is the end of the megillah. I am the painter - Nathan the son of rav and master Josef, sofer stam [an expert, religious scribe] in the holy community of Zolochiv (Złoczów).

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Summary and Remarks

At least two other manuscripts by the same artist-scribe are extant.

It seems that in the upper part of the opening decoration, on the right-hand side, some traces of Hebrew letters can be noticed.

The words ברוך could be originally painted in gold; currently, they are green.

The artist filled all available space on the membranes.

The right margin of the first membrane is blank (it is ca. 90 mm wide).

A similar scroll is stored at the Klau Library, the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (scroll no. 55 (V.8)) available on https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1015672768 (accessed on 28.06.2021).

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Bibliography

Online collection of the ritual objects from the E. Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute is available on https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/597197/0/ (accessed on 28.06.2021).

Iwona Brzewska, Magdalena Sieramska, Katalog, rzemiosło artystyczne, [in:] Muzeum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego. Zbiory artystyczne, Warszawa 1995, 33–34 and fig. 57.

Kalendarz żydowski 1986–1987, Warsaw 1986, p. 32 and pages in color after pp. 144, 160.

Kultura ocalona. Katalog wystawy poświęconej kulturze Żydów polskich, eds. Barbara Askanas, Bogna Piotrowska, Tomasz Fedorowicz, Warsaw 1983, p. 3, object no. 3.

Izabella Rejduch-Samkowa, Jan Samek, Dawna sztuka żydowska w Polsce, Warsaw 2002, 55–57.

Marian Fuks, Zygmunt Hoffman, Maurycy Horn, Żydzi polscy. Dzieje i kultura, Warsaw 1982, 103 (a reproduction of the fragment).

Dagmara Budzioch, The Decorated Esther Scrolls from the Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Tradition of Megillot Esther Decoration in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries – An Outline [Polish: Dekorowane zwoje Estery z Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego w Warszawie na tle tradycji dekorowania megilot Ester w XVII i XVIII wieku. Zarys problematyki], Warsaw 2019, 1:190-206.

Short Name
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Documenter
Yaffa Levy; Keren Katsir; Dagmara Budzioch | 1994, 2014, 2020
Author of description
Yaffa Levy; Keren Katsir; Dagmara Budzioch | 1994, 2020
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