Saadia ben Abraham Longo explained

Saadia ben Abraham Longo was a Turkish Hebrew poet, who lived in Constantinople in about the middle of the 16th century.

A manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a collection of Longo's poems about various subjects; letters written by him to contemporary scholars and by them to him; a poetical correspondence between Longo and David Onkeneira; and a paper entitled Naḥal Ḳedumim, in prose interspersed with verse in which occur 1,000 words beginning with aleph, an arrangement similar to that which was followed in the Elef Alfin of .[1]

Some of Longo's dirges were published under the title Shivre Luḥot (Salonica, 1594). To them is prefixed a chronicle of Jewish writers and their works, entitled Seder Zemannim. Longo wrote, besides, poems on many works of his contemporaries; these poems are printed at the beginning of the works to which they refer.[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Neubauer, Adolf. Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and in the College Libraries of Oxford. 677–679. Clarendon Press. 1886. Oxford.
  2. Encyclopedia: Saadia Longo. Moritz. Steinschneider. Moritz Steinschneider. Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana. Berlin. 1852–60. A. Friedlaender. la. 2227–2228.
  3. Book: Fürst, Julius. Julius Fürst. Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur. Leipzig. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. 1863. de. 2. 255.