sentences:  The former work (called also "Melek Rab") is in the style of the "maḳamah," in rimed prose interspersed with short poems.It was written in 1214, and is addressed to the nasi Todros ha-Levi Abulafia, who is called upon, at the end of the work, to act as judge in a poetical dispute.It appeared at Constantinople in 1543 (?