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Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
  BLM Hanging of Haman Esther Scroll, Jever (?), mid-18th century

© Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum für Geschichte und Volkstum, Photographer: Pröhle, A., 2022

The Hebrew text of the Book of Esther is written within hand-painted arches decorated with birds and animals, floral motifs and flowers, a view of a city, and a crown. The details on either side of the arches are drawn against a black background. The columns of text are separated with a repeating floral pattern with acanthus leaves. The only narrative scene in the scroll - the hanging of Haman (Es. 7:10) - is incorporated in the column containing a section listing the names of the ten sons of Haman (Es. 9:6-10). The upper margins are decorated with foliate and floral ornaments, while the lower margins are blank. Some details in the scroll are painted with tempera, while others are only pen-and-ink drawings.

Summary and Remarks

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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Name/Title
BLM Hanging of Haman Esther Scroll | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
Mid-18th century
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Origin
Germany
| Jever (?)
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Material / Technique
Ink and tempera on parchment
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Measurements
The scroll: 240x3050 mm.
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Condition

In general, the manuscript is well preserved, although its opening section is rather damaged and visibly darker; it is stained too.

Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Condition of Building Fabric
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents

The Book of Esther in Hebrew with initial benedictions, and a liturgical poem "Asher Heni".

Codicology

The scroll is formed of 5 membranes containing 14 columns of the text with 21, 22, 24, or 25 lines each, except for the col. 12 including Haman's sons section which is written in 11 lines divided into two half-columns.

The scroll opens with an additional column containing three initial benedictions and ends with a column containing the liturgical poem.

The text is written in Hebrew square Ashkenazi stam script with tagin in dark brown (almost black ink) on the flesh side of parchment sheets.

The letters forming the Tetragrammaton (cols. 2, 7, and 9) and ת (Es. 9:29) are enlarged and bolded. Other enlarged and diminished letters are included in col. 12. Their components are additionally decorated with tiny dots.

The letter ח (Es. 1:6) is larger and decorated with scrolled feet.

The ruling is made with a hardpoint along with the membranes.

The pricking is visible on the membranes' edges.

The membranes in the scroll are stitched together.

Each benediction starts with a large and bolded word ברוך - "blessed", colored red, black, or green.

They include ligatures of א and ל letters.

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Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Colophon

None

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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance

Until the end of the 1950s owned by the Jever Jewish community, later in the collection of Dr. Zvi Asaria. In 1984 acquired by the BLM.

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

Jüdisches Kulturgerät. Eine Auswahl aus den Sammlungen, Braunschweig 1984, p. 22 (Veröffentlichungen des Braunschweigischen Landesmuseums 40).

Stadt im Wandel. Kunst und Kultur des Bürgertums in Norddeutschland 1150–1650, Austellungkatalog, vol. 1, Braunschweig 1985, p. 514.

Type
Documenter
Dagmara Budzioch | 2021
Author of description
Dagmara Budzioch | 2021
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The following information on this monument will be completed:
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