Giovanni Antonio Costanzi, the Vatican librarian and author of a catalog of the Vatican’s Hebrew manuscripts, directed searches in all the Jewish quarters throughout the Papal States to confiscate Jewish holy books. The confiscation began on the 22nd Iyar in 1731. More confiscations continued over the next twenty years.
ULTIMO CENSORE DI LIBRI EBRAICI A ROMA 1745-1756 ca.