Our teacher Rabbeinu Yaakov, brother of Rashbam, called R"T (Rabbeinu Tam), was a great sage and excelled in the straightness of understanding; none like him arose who was so sharp and acknowledged the truth. He authored works: Sefer HaYashar, and Sefer HaPsakim [It is written in Siftei Yeshenim that the responsa of Rabbi Yaakov of Dombra...]

It is written [(in the Yuchsin, in the generations of the Geonim)] he passed away in the city of Remiremont, near Treves, about two parasangs, in the year 4930 [(and I write 4931, the 5th of Tammuz)]. And Rabbi Chayim Kohen, his student, wrote in the chapter HaNoseh [see Tosafot Ketubot 101] that...

It is written [in the responsa of Maharshal, section 29] after Rashbam, R"T reigned, and before him served Rabbi Yaakov Elizbazi and Rabbi Yitzchak bar Baruch and Rabbi Yosef Bekhor Shor [(and in Siftei Yeshenim it brings novellae in the order of the Torah according to kabbalah, a fine work by Rabbi Yosef Bekhor Shor...)]

It is written [Shomer HaDat, letter 52, section 2] Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael, Rabbi Yosef of Orleans, and our teacher Rabbeinu Moshe, and our teacher Rabbeinu Shmuel of Verdun, and Rabbi Yosef son of Rabbi Yitzchak, and Rabbi Yaakov of Chinon, and Rabbi Shimshon of Falaise, Rabbi Matityahu of Chartres. Rabbi Mordechai Turmesha...

The Rambam authored Sefer HaYad in the year 4930 [see above year 4927]. In the year 4930 there was a great earthquake in the lands of the East, the likes of which had never been, and cities fell to their foundations like the overthrow of Sodom in Tripoli, Antioch, and also in the land of Tigris [(Tzeda LeDerekh, chapter 8...)]