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The scroll opens with a framed title page in Hebrew containing the place of issuing (Jerusalem) and the name of the printing press (Samuel Ha-Levi Zuckerman). It is followed by all three benedictions recited before the Megillah reading that are placed one under the other and in the next column, the Book of Esther starts.
The scroll is preserved in very good condition.
The Book of Esther in Hebrew with the initial and final benedictions and the liturgical poem Asher Heni
The text is printed in square columns with 17 lines.
According to William Gross, "Zuckerman was an active printer and there are over 80 examples of his work in the Gross Family Collection".
The scroll comes from Fez where a box of about 25 copies was found.
No bibliography on the scroll is available.