Img. ID: 9338
The Book of Esther in Hebrew with 4 prefatory panels and traditional genealogies of Mordecai and Haman in the margins
The scroll is formed of 5 sheets containing 21 columns of the text with 17 lines.
Several scrolls decorated in a similar way are stored in private and institutional collections (e.g. BCM 75, Braginksy Collection, Zurich; MS 182/114, IM, Jerusalem), however, not all of them bear the note of the artist-scribe.
For similar decoration see also Siman Tov Piyyutim of 1864: https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=11818.
For another scroll decorated with Hebrew letters on the margins see ID 36175.
The scroll is described in:
Isaiah Shachar, Jewish Tradition in Art, the Feuchtwanger Collection of Judaica, Jerusalem 1971, 158, object 417.
Chaja Benjamin, The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art, Jerusalem 1987, object 191.
Other scrolls featuring similar pattern are described in:
Schöne Seiten. Jüdische Schriftkultur aus der Braginsky Collection, eds. E. Schrijver, F. Wiesemann, E.M. Cohen, S. Liberman Mintz, M. Schmeltzer, Zurich 2011, 306‒307.
A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books, eds. E.M. Cohen, E. Schrijver, S. Liberman Mintz, Amsterdam 2009, 272–273.