The R"M of Coucy is Rabbi Moshe bar Yaakov, author of the Smag, student of Rabbi Shimshon and Rabbi Yehudah Chasid. Rabbi Shimshon bar Avraham of Coucy, called Sar of Coucy, was the grandfather of Smag, and Smag and Ramban received from Geonim who preceded them, like the year 4950. And both of them were Spaniards. And the Rabbi author of the Smag was at the beginning of the sixth millennium...

Rabbi Yitzchak, the author of Or Zarua of Vienna, bar Moshe, was a great sage and is called Ri"z, [(I heard that he was uncertain about the name Akiva whether it has a gimmel or a dalet at its end, and it came to him in a dream the verse "Light is sown for the righteous and joy for the upright of heart," the end letters spell Rabbi Akiva, and therefore he called his book Or Zarua)] and he was a student of Rabbi Yehudah of Frissi, as is evident...

Rabbi Amnon of Mainz who sanctified HaShem's Name was a great man in this generation. He was the leader of the generation, wealthy, well-connected, and handsome. And the bishop of Mainz and the ministers began to request of him conversion, and he refused to listen. And it was that they spoke to him day after day and he did not listen to them, and the bishop pressed him.

And it was when they strengthened against him that he said to them, I am...

The minister Don Galig son of the minister Don Shlomo ibn Yichya was in this generation, and due to his great wisdom and statesmanship the king took him as an advisor and he became his physician, for they brought him from Castile to Portugal, etc., and afterwards he fled to the King of Castile who honored him and gave him permission that he had a title taken from him, which was a tax to the king...

Rabbeinu Peretz HaKohen, called the R"P, son of the great Rabbi, our teacher Rabbeinu Yitzchak, authored Tosafot on the Talmud but they were not revealed to us, and he made Tosafot around the Smag his teacher, and authored Sefer Ma'arekhet Elohut on Kabbalah, and Rabbi Yehudah Chayyat made a commentary on it [(see above year 5269)], and I saw in Gitin, chapter HaMagresh, around the Rif, the Hagahah wrote the...

In this year, which is the year 5001, there was a great earthquake, and it was awesome in the city of Burgon, the earth shook from its place and the foundations of the world tottered, and also great and wide mountains fell into the valley and many died [(Tzeda LeDerekh, chapter 2)]: