Gervasius Tilberiensis studied and taught canon law. Gervase's Otia imperialia has been titled Liber de mirabilibus mundi, Solatia imperatoris, and Descriptio totius orbis.^[2] It is an encyclopedic miscellany of wonders in the manner of speculum literature, divided into three parts (decisiones) concerning history, geography, and physics. During the following three centuries it was much read,^[3] and it was twice translated into French in the fourteenth century. Catholic apologists respect it most of all for the support

He also wrote a Vita abbreviata et miracula beatissimi Antonii ("Shortened life and miracles of the most blessed Anthony") and a Liber de transitu beate virginis et gestis discipulorum .he may have