Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	File
Reference Number	MS MOCATTA/12
Title	Benedictions
Date	c1811
Description	'Sefer shevahim u-verakhot mizeman shyitorer ha-adam mishenato 'ad sheyishkav 'al mitato. Im kidush ve-havdalah le-r.h. ve-yamim tovim yaknehza'. Manuscript Jewish prayer book: morning and night-time prayers, eruv tavshilin, kiddush and havdalah for New Year and festivals. Text in vocalised Hebrew with rubrics in Yiddish. The Hebrew date (given as a chronogram) is 571, ie 1810 or 1811. The scribe's name, 'ha-Katan Nahum Sofer' is given at the foot of the title page.
Extent	1 volume containing 13 pages
AdminHistory	Possibly written in London.
CustodialHistory	From the Asher Myers collection. Formerly held with other Jewish collections in 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, 7-10, 18, 23, 25, 35, 72, 75, 76).
FindingAids	Collection level description.

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