Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Chasidic Megilat Esther on Parchment

Opening: $250
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Miniature Megilat Esther on parchment, scribe handwriting, some of the letters are adorned with “Ketarim” [Crowns].
15 columns of varying widths on three parchment sheets, sawn to each other in antique sewing. In some of the verses, the letters of the Shem Ha-Meforash are accentuated at the beginning or the endings of the words. [A Chasidic, Kabala based custom].
Total size: 13.5X130cm. Good-fair condition. Tears and missing bits at the opening of the Megilah. Stains, some of which are dark, mainly on the first columns.
Objects and single pages
Objects and single pages