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Bidding Information
Lot #    7800
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 1:18:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Megillat Mizrayim (Egyptian Scroll)
Title (Hebrew)    מגלת מצרים
Author    [Ms.]
City    [Iraq]
Publication Date    20th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    15 pp., 220:138 mm., ink on paper, 19-20 lines per page in two columns, written in modern Bagddadi rabbinic cursive script, bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    While a Megillat Mizrayim by R. Samuel ha-Shelishi b. Hoshana (d. after 1012), is known this scroll is apparently for a later event of a miraculous rescue of Egyptian Jewry. In any event, it appears the original of this scroll is lost.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Iraq
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica