Bidspirit auction | Parchment Scroll – The Book

Parchment Scroll – The Book of Ruth – Jerusalem, Early 20th Century - Parchment Megillat Ruth. [Jerusalem, ca. early 20th century]. Ink on parchment in large format. Neat, elegant Ashkenazic (Beit Yosef) Stam script, characteristic of the circle of scribes active in Jerusalem in the 1890s-1910s; the permanence of ink is also characteristic of this circle. 42 lines, in four columns on one membrane. Height of parchment: 55.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.