 The work was completed in 1626 and was entitled by its author "Goder Peretz", but given the title "Minḥat Shai" when the work was first printed by its publisher, Raphael Ḥayyim Basila, more than 100 years later, who added to it some notes and appended a list of 900 variations (Mantua, 1742–44).It was divided into two volumes, the first embracing the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot, and the second comprising the Hagiographa and the Prophets, with two small treatises at the end—"Ma'amar haMa'arikh," on the "Meteg," and "Kelale BeGaDKaFaT," on the six Hebrew letters that can receive a "dagesh kal" and the "Ḳameẓ ḥaṭuf.