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MS MOCATTA - Mocatta Manuscripts

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	File
Reference Number	MS MOCATTA/10
Title	Hazkarat neshamot
Date	1826
Date2	5587
Description	'Hazkarat Neshamot le-Yom Kipur ule-Shalosh Regalim ke-Minhag k. k. Tshetham she-nadav ha-p. u-m. R. Yehudah b. R. Shimon n.y.'. Memorial service for the Day of Atonement and Pilgrim Festivals, according to the rite of Chatham. Hebrew date on title page: 5587 [1826 or 1827]. Title page states 'a.y. Shelomoh [undeciphered]': probably the name of the scribe. Includes the blessings and prayers before and after the Haftarah reading. In the prayer for the royal family, the names of King William IV and Queen Adelaide are written on a slip of paper which has been pasted over the text, presumably containing the name of the previous monarch.
Extent	1 volume containing 11 pages
AdminHistory	A Jewish congregation was founded in Chatham about 1740 and a synagogue about 1760. A new place of worship, the Magnus Memorial Synagogue, was consecrated in 1870.
CustodialHistory	Inscription on cover: 'David Philllips'. Formerly held with other Jewish collections at the Mocatta Library of University College London.
Acquisition	Transferred from the Mocatta Library (subsequently the Jewish Studies Library) of University College London.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related Material	University College London Special Collections also holds various other prayer books (Ref: MS MOCATTA 1, 2, 4, 7-9, 12, 18, 23, 25, 35, 72, 75, 76).

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