The museum opened last autumn under the umbrella of the Auckland Project, a charity to develop the area as a cultural destination.
Charlotte Grobler, the project’s curator, said: “There are very few remaining Jewish objects from medieval England, not because there weren’t people practising Judaism at this time but because they were often living within predominantly Christian communities and faced significant persecution.
“Like many of the objects in the Faith Museum, this siddur is a personal object used to practise faith in a very personal way. Since manuscripts were costly to produce at the time, it could have also been used by the owner’s whole family and the wider community.”
