{"id":1325,"date":"2026-10-29T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/black-to-black\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:43:08","slug":"black-to-black","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/black-to-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple censorships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project team examined the multiple censorship campaigns present in a fifteenth-century ma\u1e25zor, <a href=\"https:\/\/cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk\/view\/MS-ADD-00662\/1\">MS Add.662<\/a>, held at Cambridge University Library, particularly notable for its extensive textual alterations. The team used traditional scholarly methods, such as paleography and codicology, integrating them with scientific tools to offer a deeper understanding of the complex, multi-layered censorship in this codex. The central research question was: How can scientific analysis enhance our understanding of censorship in MS Add.662?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"571\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/11\/full-1872471x_020_01_s002_i0003.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/11\/full-1872471x_020_01_s002_i0003.png 571w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/11\/full-1872471x_020_01_s002_i0003-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By integrating traditional textual and historical approaches with advanced scientific methods, most notably Multispectral imaging (MSI) and digital microscopy, we were able to establish a stratigraphic chronology of four distinct censorship campaigns within the manuscript, together with associated textual substitutions. These layers of textual alteration could not have been reconstructed through visual inspection alone. This methodological shift offers a robust framework with implications both for the study of censorship in premodern Jewish liturgical manuscripts and, more broadly, for the material study of marks of use in books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full results of our investigation of MS Add.662 have been published in N. Lefler, F. Fiorillo, &amp; E. Poleg (2026). Between Black and Black: Analysis of Multiple Censorship Campaigns in an Ashkenazic Ma\u1e25zor (MS Add.662). <em>European Journal of Jewish Studies<\/em>, <em>20<\/em>(1), 5-43. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/1872471x-bja10115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1163\/1872471x-bja10115<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project team examined the multiple censorship campaigns present in a fifteenth-century ma\u1e25zor, MS Add.662, held at Cambridge University Library, particularly notable for its extensive textual alterations. The team used traditional scholarly methods, such as paleography and codicology, integrating them with scientific tools to offer a deeper understanding of the complex, multi-layered censorship in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1325","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hiddeninplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}