In the days of the Rosh who was around the year 5050, which is about 1242 years since the destruction [(as calculated)], many locusts fell from the sky and the land was disgusted, and a great plague broke out in Italy and spread almost throughout the entire world, and they said that not a tenth of the children remained [(Shomer HaDat, section 112, part 2)]:

Rabbi Menachem HaRakanti authored a commentary on the Torah according to Kabbalah and Sefer HaDinnim, and he was a man of limited intellect, but he increased in fasting and prayer so that from heaven they would expand his mind and heart. Once while he was praying and dozing, behold, a man with a vessel full of water in his hand woke him and said to him, 'Drink,' and he took it and drank but did not finish...

It is written [Shomer HaDat, letter 59, section 2] and these sages I found written in Sha'arei Tzion who were around this generation [and some I omitted whom I mentioned in other places]: The Rabbi, Rabbi Mordechai of Provence who authored Sefer Evar Min HaChai [(and in Sha"i it is written Rabbi Manoach on the verse 'However flesh with its life') on forbidden and permitted, and Sefer Beit Sha'arim on...

And I will arrange them according to the alphabet:

Rabbi Aharon Trushburg in Furli in the year 246, Rabbi Eliyahu Alnas in Balirano, Rabbi Elazar Figon in Foyia, Rabbi Avraham Truvash in Siraz, Rabbi Berechyah Kohen in Campiano of Rome, Rabbi Ben Tzion in Cremona, [see Siftei Yeshenim, Sefer Palgi Mayim, responsa on the letter of Rabbi Ben Tzion, these are 368,] Rabbi Gershon...