Part 56

"Paradise, The" by Moses Rieti, 35

Parallax computed by Isaac Israeli, 93

Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach, 185 Jewish contributions to, 35, 87

Pastor Fido by Guarini, 129, 240

Paul III, pope, alluded to, 95

Paula deï Mansi, Talmudist, 116-117

Pedro I, of Castile, and Santob de Carrion, 87, 169, 170

Pedro di Carvallho, navigator, 96

Pekah, king, alluded to, 250

Pensa, Joseph, de la Vega, dramatist, 237-238

Pentateuch, the Jewish German translation of, 100 Mendelssohn's commentary on, 309

Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana by Radziwill, 280

Persia, Jewish literature in, 90

Pesikta, a Talmudic work, 21

Petachya of Ratisbon, traveller, 37, 117

Petrarch, translated into Spanish, 98

Petrus Alphonsus, writer, 89, 171

Peurbach, humanist, 100

Philipson, L., journalist, 49

Philo, philosopher, 17

Philo the Elder, writer, 17

Phokylides (pseudo-), Neoplatonist, 17

Physicians, Jewish, 81, 95, 97, 179

Pickelhering, a character in Mekirath Yoseph, 241

Pico della Mirandola alluded to, 94 and Levi ben Gerson, 91 and the Kabbala, 44

Pilpul, Talmudic method, 46

Pinchas, rabbi, chronicler of the Saul Wahl story, 273, 277, 280

Piut, a form of liturgic Hebrew poetry, 24, 198