Censorship notes

Pages carrying documented censor signatures or records of censorship review.

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Deuterocanonical and related texts

Some biblical manuscripts—including witnesses in the Masoretic tradition—preserve works outside the Jewish canon beside Scripture or its Aramaic Targum. This guide explains the texts, manuscripts, and scholarship, and updates automatically as occurrences are added.

3 texts · 9 occurrences · 6 manuscripts

Folio 477v verso · Chronicles concludes; 1618 censor signature, Duke of Sussex Bible (British Library Add MS 15252, 1350–1374)

Duke of Sussex Bible (British Library Add MS 15252, 1350–1374)Folio 477v verso · Chronicles concludes; 1618 censor signatureFolio 477v: Giovanni Domenico Carretto's dated 1618 signature records an Italian censorship review on the final Chronicles surface.Contains indexed biblical text

Folio 422 verso · Chronicles concludes; censor inscriptions, Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)

Harley Catalan Bible (British Library Harley MS 1528, 1325–1374)Folio 422 verso · Chronicles concludes; censor inscriptionsFolio 422v: Jacob Geraldino's dated 1555 review and Luigi da Bologna's 1602 Reggio signature record two later censorship examinations on the final Chronicles surface.Contains indexed biblical text

Folio 323 verso · Latin censor inscription · partial Aramaic Targum on Song of Songs · no indexed Hebrew biblical text, British Library Harley MS 5709 (1300–1339 Torah, Five Scrolls, and haftarot with Rashi)

British Library Harley MS 5709 (1300–1339 Torah, Five Scrolls, and haftarot with Rashi)Folio 323 verso · Latin censor inscription · partial Aramaic Targum on Song of Songs · no indexed Hebrew biblical textFolio 323v bears the Latin inscription ‘Fra Hipp. Ferr’, probably the mark of the Franciscan censor Hippolite of Ferrara, recording an early-modern review of the manuscript.No indexed biblical text

Bodleian MS. Canon. Or. 136353vFolio 353v bears the 1601 signature of Hippolitus of Ferrara, recording an early-modern censorship review.Contains indexed biblical text

Bodleian MS. Oppenheim 14fol. 351vFolio 351v: the final Isaiah reading is followed by Camillo Jaghel's dated 1611 signature, recording an early-modern censorship review on the last biblical surface.Contains indexed biblical text

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