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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Moses Botarel Farissol". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- ↑ Steinschneider, Moritz (1857). Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. p. 189.
- ↑ Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Munich, p. 93, No. 249, 1.
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