522 THE TURKISH AND FRENCH FLEET, 1553. JDP afar off*. And the emperor pursued not after him, for the winter began; and during many days there was rain upon all the earth†. So he gathered his host into the cities on the borders, and remained there; and the king also gathered his host into the fortresses; and the country had rest. 1312. In those days there was no king in England‡, for their king, Edward, was dead, and the government was left in the hand of his sister, the daughter of his father; and they buried him in the sepulchre of the kings. 1313. And the ships of Solyman came with the ships of King Henry, bearing the men of war whom the king had in Siena, and weapons of war in abundance; and they fell suddenly upon the island of Corsica, which was under the government of Genoa. And they took all the cities of the plain and all its fortresses, as a man taketh a piece of an ear; then the fortress Calvo alone was left unto the Genoese; and the French surrounded it, and it remained in siege and in straitness many days§. 1314. And the lords of Genoa gathered men of valor and ships in abundance, to go to its help, to deliver it from the hand of its spoilers. And the * Exod. xx. 18. Comp. Jud. xvii. 6. † Gen. vii. 12. § Deut. xxviii. 53. 55. 57. קמג 523 THE TALMUD BURNED, A.M. 5313. 1315. In those days, a priest, one of the brethren 1316. Then they who raved against our nation, 524 THE TALMUD BURNED, A.M. 5313. קמג cloth*, and cried unto the Lord in their distress†, and He was long suffering with them, because he delighteth in mercy. 1317. And there was war in Piedmont and in Corsica at that time. The author, Joseph the priest, saith, "Hitherto the Lord hath holpen me to write this Book of Chronicles, which was completed at the end of the month Cheshwan, in the year, AND the things that shall come upon them MAKE HASTE§.' May the Lord deem us worthy|| to write other books without end, and see the pleasantness of his temple, and the building of his house in Jerusalem. Amen. Such be his pleasure." When Zerachiah¶, the Levite, the son of the author's sister, saw the beauty of this glorious Book, and the honey , mundum, purum esse apud Rabbinos est etiam mereri, dignum esse in Picl dignum censere.— -Buxtorf Lex. Rab. .זרחיה | קמג AMSTERDAM EDITION, A.D. 1730. 525 from the honeycomb of its words*, the Lord stirred up his spirit, and he also began to speak; and he opened his mouth with songs of rejoicing; and he said— "Whosoever desireth to find delight in the times past, let him take up this Book of Memorials: when his sleep hath left him, let him read itt, for therein he shall see the matters of the king of the nations‡, and the end of our captivity. Peradventure he will be favored to discern between the greatness of the heathen kings, and that of our Messiah. And so he will give thanks unto God, that he hath not taken his mercy from us, giving us a ready penman, a writer of the Chronicles of our nation." . These Chronicles are ready for sale at the printer's and bookseller's, the celebrated Rabbi Solomon Proops, the righteous priest, (may his rock and his Redeemer guard him!§), together with any other sort of books, Pentateuchs, Prayer-books, Liturgies, Absolutions, according to every regulation of each congregation|| (may their rock and Redeemer guard them!); and sorts of volumes, large and small, either in the holy tongue, or in the strange tongue¶. He buys and sells also, all sorts of old and new books, Gemaroth, || i. e. According to the Sphardim, or the Jews of the Spanish, and the Ashkenazim, or the Jews of the German rites. ¶p. A similar phrase occurs in Ps. cxiv. Our text has the mark of "Wx, or of initials, over t'y; which seems to .לשון עם זר imply that it is to be taken as an abbreviation for The context shows that the Dutch language is meant. 526 AMSTERDAM EDITION, A.D. 1730. קמג Medrashim (Sermons), and also books of the Cabbalah, Commentaries, Decisions, Questions and Answers, and all other sorts of books whatsoever, as it is known. His dwelling is in the street which is called Broad Street, (DNO, (Breite Strasse), in the holy community of Amsterdam.. 54 59 61 CORRIGENDA TO VOL, I. heading, for 4466 read 4856. 21, for seventy read ninety. 23, for four hundred and sixty-six read eight hundred and note, after DippP, insert, seems to be Gottschalk. whole number of persons, women and children and note, last line but one, after confounded insert, Von Raumer 5, note to thence. According to other historians, Baldwin's retinue consisted of seven hundred knights and two thousand foot; Tancred's to five hundred knights and a corresponding number of foot.— Vor Raumer, Hohenstaufen, vol. i. p. 116. note, after WWIIN, read, seems to be Mamistra. 64 19, for learn read leave. |