Miscellaneous documents and photographs relating to Jewish notaries and the Jewish community in England

This material is held atUniversity of Southampton Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 738 MS 116/27
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1742-1747 (copies), 1902-1920
  • Language of Material
    • English, Hebrew
  • Physical Description
    • 2 folders

Scope and Content

Photographs of the Oxford summer school, 1920; the Prophet Ahmad of Qadian and Muhammed Sadig, 1902; address and gifts presented to Professor Solomon Schechter, 1902; group photograph, including Chief Rabbi Hertz; studio portrait of an unknown lady; three pictures after the original drawings of Professor M.Oppenheim. Copies of a notarial faculty awarded to Haham Isaac Netto, Aug 1747; attesting signatures of a number of London Jewish notaries, taken from the original probate wills; of an engraving of Devonshire Square, 1742; of a notarial deposition signed by Solomon de Costa, 1742; and of the ketubah of the marriage of Isaac Netto or Nieto to Sarah Supino, 1747. Cards advertising the twenty-first anniversary dinner of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 27 Apr 1914.

Administrative / Biographical History

Miscellaneous documents and photographs.

Access Information

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Bibliography

The notarial material was the source for E.R.Samuel, 'Anglo- Jewish notaries and scriveners' Jewish Historical Society of England Transactions 17 (1951-2) pp. 113-59.