The final leaf of Bridwell Library’s expurgated copy bears the date 1617 and the signatures of two censors who were active in Mantua, Clemente Renatto and Giovanni Domenico Carretto. On the exhibited page, the censors’ ink deletions have corroded the paper, creating a large loss. Remarkably, a small fragment of uncensored text belonging to Psalm 115, formerly surrounded by the missing portions of this page, has survived loose within the book. In the translation of the expurgated text below, the deleted portions surrounding the fragment are struck through:

“that the nations and the kingdoms are called dead even while they are still alive because their souls do not remain and they die completely. They did not praise the divine Name that gave them the land, which is why he says, ‘The dead cannot praise the Lord, nor can all who descend into silence,’ these being the nations that go down en masse into the grave, which is silence and stillness, and their souls do not remain.”