A Magnificent and Unique Illustrated Esther Scroll from India, 19th century Manuscript on parchment (5 7/8 x 192 in.; 147 x 4880 mm). 31 columns of 11 lines, written in square Hebrew script, plus an initial full column miniature bordered with two Devanagari inscriptions in the Gujarati and Marathi languages of western India; on seven membranes; on a painted wooden roller; sumptuously illustrated with eighteen miniatures and two dozen elongated stylized illustrations of court musicians as well as forty-three panels with floral and faunal motifs.
A Magnificent and Unique Illustrated Esther Scroll from India, 19th century Manuscript on parchment (5 7/8 x 192 in.; 147 x 4880 mm). 31 columns of 11 lines, written in square Hebrew script, plus an initial full column miniature bordered with two Devanagari inscriptions in the Gujarati and Marathi languages of western India; on seven membranes; on a painted wooden roller; sumptuously illustrated with eighteen miniatures and two dozen elongated stylized illustrations of court musicians as well as forty-three panels with floral and faunal motifs.
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