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From the year 5224 until the 9th day of Av until the year 5250, evil decrees continued upon the Jews in the lands of Savoy and Piedmont and Lombardy Provence and Sicily and Ashkenaz and Portugal and Navarra and Naples [(Shomer HaDat there).] In this generation Nicolai Janovisi, and some say he was Franciscali, and some say Ashkenazi from Mainz, discovered with his wisdom the craft of printing [(Shomer HaDat there, see above year 5200).] Rabbi Moshe HaRiyati authored a book, Shomer HaDat, [(and Mayan HaShoalim, Machzorot and Tefilot, these are 362)] and from him I took a little [(Shomer HaDat, letter 62, section 2)]: