IBN VIVES AL-LORQUI (OF LORCA), JOSEPH BEN JOSHUA:
Spanish physician; died before 1408; son of Joshua ibn Vives al-Lorqui. He translated from Arabic into Hebrew various books of the short canon of Avicenna, and added to the translation a commentary which was used by ShemṬob Shaprut.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cal. Bodl. col. 1505;
- idem, Hebr. Bibl. xviii. 68;
- idem, Hebr. Uebers. pp. 436, 681, 921;
- Carmoly, Les Médecins Juifs, p. 117.
