In the Real Gold case this month we feature a manuscript to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Sue Berman tells us about how Senior Curator Archives & Manuscripts Dr Natasha Barrett has worked to describe the manuscript - Megillat Esther - which had otherwise been largely undescribed for over a hundred years.
The track includes a clip from a conversation with visiting scholar Sharon Lieberman Mintz, curator of Jewish Art at the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary and Senior Consultant Judaica to Sotheby's New York, who gave her generous assistance for describing and dating this scroll. (recorded in August 2019)
Digital images of the scroll can be found with the record here:
https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/14194/rec/1
Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections MS 324
Henry Keesing biography - https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1k5/keesing-henry
See also - http://braginskycollection.com/esther-scrolls/
