FRANCES, JOSEPH:

By: Richard Gottheil, M. Seligsohn

Spanish scholar; lived at Ferrara, Italy, about the middle of the sixteenth century. He was the author of a commentary to Jedaiah Bedersi's "Beḥinat ha-'Olam" and "Baḳḳashat ha-Memin," published with the texts (Ferrara, 1552).

Bibliography:

Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 287;
Kayserling, Sephardim, p. 314.

G. M. Sel.