Rabbi Yoel HaEzri, student of Rabbi Ephraim of Regensburg [(see above year 4935)], son-in-law of Ibn Yarchi, and Rabbi Elazar bar Shimon passed away in the year 5004, [(Yuchsin in the generations of the Acharonim)]. Rabbi Tzidkiyahu bar Avraham the physician, author of Shibolei HaLeket, was in Italy. And he says in his book, section 62, about the burning of 24 cartloads of holy books...