Crescas, Astruc Don

Provençal scholar; lived probably at Perpignan, in the fourteenth century. Samuel, son of Solomon Shalom of Perpignan (compare Azulai, "Shem ha-Gedolim," p. 188), consulted Crescas on a halakic question in a complicated case of marriage. Both Samuel's inquiry and Crescas' answer are still extant in manuscript.

Bibliography:

  * Neubauer, Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS. No. 834, 8.



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