Unknown source in Ot nafshi

A description of the earthquake can be found in the Hebrew booklet tilted Ot nafshi. Ambraseys and Karcz (1992) report that, according to Klein (1939), Ot nafshi belonged to Isaac Levy and the section describing the earthquake was copied by him from an earlier document of unknown origin in 1562 or 1625 CE. A reference in the document to the Ottoman authorities refusing to allow a church to be rebuilt in Jerusalem suggests that the original report was composed and/or redacted at least a few months or years after the earthquake. Braslavsky (1938) noted that some words and phrases which offend Christianity were deleted by censors indicating that the larger text of Ot Nafshi may have a redactional history.