Parchment Megillat Esther with uniquely decorated initial letters, Eastern Europe, 18th Century. Height: 35 cm.; about 270 cm. long. 4 “yeriot”, 13 columns, 22 lines. Nice, Ashkenazic scribal hand, unique and artistic: decorative flowers, crowns, towers, and animals at the beginning of the leaves, with additional decorations for Haman’s ten sons, the enlarged letters in the megilla (such as the letter ח in חור כרפס) are written in an especially artistic manner. The first “yeriah” is in moderate condition with holes in the letters, the other “yeriot” are in fine-moderate condition with a few holes in some of the letters.