Metadata: Mocatta Manuscripts
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- University College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- University College London
- Postal address:
- POST:UCL Library Services, UCL (University College London), Gower StreetLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1E 6BT
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7679 7792
- Web address:
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
- Email:
- Email: library@ucl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- MS Mocatta
- Title:
- Mocatta Manuscripts
- Title (official language):
- Mocatta Manuscripts
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mocatta, Frederic David
- Date(s):
- 1300/2000
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 76 items
- Scope and content:
- A mixture of religious and non-religious material including service books, fragments of the Hebrew bible and the Koran, prayer books, letters, diaries, calendars and drawings.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Frederic David Mocatta was born in London in 1828 to Anglo-Jewish banker Abraham Mocatta and his wife Miriam Brandon. Educated at home by private tutors, he was also taught Hebrew and Latin by his father. He entered the family firm of Mocatta & Goldsmid, bullion brokers to the Bank of England, in 1843, retiring in 1874. He married Mary Ada Goldsmid in 1856. Mocatta was a philanthropist, with interest in numerous charitable causes, with the particular aim of freeing the poor from charity. He supported many voluntary hospitals and a great deal of his wealth went to Jewish causes. A member of the Jewish Board of Guardians, his library, bequeathed to the Mocatta Museum and Library, came to form a foundation for Jewish studies. Mocatta died in 1905.
- Subject terms:
- Rare books
- Access, restrictions:
- Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
- Finding aids:
-
Online catalogue.
The Special Collections website has further information about Jewish collections.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
