An average column of the text: 178x200 mm.
Sheet no. 4 in the scroll includes three panels of the text nos. 10-12 surrounded by a decoration composed of foliate and floral ornaments. In the cartouches above the panels, there are signs of the Zodiac: Capricorn (?), Cancer (?), and Aries (?).
The scroll is formed of 6 sheets containing 16 columns of the text with 18 or 19 lines; col. 14 includes 11 lines divided into two parts.
Membranes nos. 1-5 contain 3 columns of the text each, while membrane no. 6 contains a single column.
The text is inscribed in Italian-Sephardi Hebrew square script in dark brown ink on the flesh side of the bright parchment membranes.
The letter ח (Es. 1:6) is highlighted by its larger size and form (this is the only letter ח containing two elements joined with a roof). The letter ת (Es. 9:29) is enlarged. Other large and small letters are included in col. 14.
The ruling was made for every text panel separately and the pricking can be discerned inside every panel.
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The ornamentation of the scroll is related to some Italian megillot Esther and ketubbot decorated with cut-out borders produced in the 2nd half of the 18th century (see "Related Objects").
It may be assumed that the original membranes nos. 5 and 6 were damaged or lost and then replaced later. The colors of this part of the scroll are brighter, more delicate, and clear.
Some details in the decoration are painted with gold or silver paint.
The former number of the manuscript: Ms 314.
Jiřina Šedinová, From the Mss. Collections of the State Jewish Museum in Prague. The Scrolls of Esther, "Judaica Bohemiae" 1979, nr 15/2, 84–85.
Olga Sixtova, O svitku / Form of the Scroll [katalog k výstavě konané v Galerii Roberta Guttmanna Židovského muzea v Praze od 22. června do 26. července 2006], Praha 2006, 28-29.
Images of the scroll are available http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/218254 (accessed on 22.10.2020).