The Rosh is the great luminary, crown of the sages, our teacher Asher the holy one, son of the Rabbi, Rabbi Yechiel, who came in the year of the expulsion from France from Ashkenaz to Tulitila in the year 5066 [(see above year 5046)], and he authored many books and rulings on the entire Talmud according to the Alfasi, and he added from the Tosafists as stated in Tur, Klal chapter 9, law 6, and we rely...

In the year 5088, there arose against the land in France to destroy all the Jews who were in the kingdom of Navarre, and about six thousand Jews were killed among them, [(Tzeda LeDerekh in the introduction)]: