Scroll of Esther for the Purim Festival

Scroll of Esther for the Purim Festival

c. 1850 · Europe (Eastern?), Hebrew, 19th century

ink on vellum (eight columns, 39 lines of text on three membranes)

Cleveland Museum of Art · Medieval Art · CC0 · The Cleveland Museum of Art

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