Miniature Manuscript Illustrated Megillat Kohelet [Book of Ecclesiastes Scroll] on Parchment

Miniature Manuscript Illustrated Megillat Kohelet [Book of Ecclesiastes Scroll] on Parchment
* Megillat Kohelet [Book of Ecclesiastes Scroll]. [Europe, early 20th century].
Miniature manuscript scroll on vellum, in a handsome Hebrew scribal hand in tiny lettering. Profusely illustrated throughout with impressive colorful frames, drawings and artistic adornments. Between the text columns appear illustrations of structures with pointed roofs and turrets. Floral decorations top and bottom consisting of leaved branches bearing various types of fruits and flowers. The top margin adorned with images of doves and the bottom with decorative medallions featuring lions passant regardant.
Height of parchment: 6 cm. Height of text: 3.5 cm, in 19 lines. Good condition, few stains, sporadic peeling of color.
Unlike Esther scrolls, on which it is customary to have illustrated decorations (and at times on Song of Songs scrolls), it is rare to find a decorated Kohelet scroll illustrated with adornments and images.
* Megillah case. [Europe? Late 19th or early 20th century?].
Silver case (unmarked), private silversmith work. Secondary use of a grated cylinder with a stylized stamped and pierced decoration of putti, grape vines and wine goblets. Megillat Esther blessings engraved along the top and bottom margins. Handle for winding scroll. Embedded with turquoise gems (on the clasp and top of case). At a later date, the scroll was incorporated into this case, despite the fact that the case was originally intended for use with an Esther scroll.
Height: approximately 12 cm.