Career
He was of Spanish descent, and after an adventurous life went to Constantinople, where he was supported by Kiera (Esther), who stood high in favor at the court of the sultan. At her expense he published, but with many omissions, Abraham Zacuto"s Yuḥasin (Constantinople, 1566), to which he added the Arabic chronology of the dynasties by the Syriac historian Gregory Bar-Hebraeus, supplemented by a Turkish history, his own work. He published also: a Hebrew translation of Josephus" Contra Apionem the Letter of Sherira Gaon the account of Nathan the Babylonian of the last geonim.
