David ben Samuel of Estelle


David ben Samuel of Estelle was a Provençal Jewish scholar, talmudist, and author of a literary history of rabbinical scholarship known as the Qiryat Sefer from History of [the Jews in France|France]. He was in Avignon around 1305. He is a follower of Maimonides and surveys the Geonim, the Tosafists, the scholars of Narbonne and Provence, and briefly mentions Meir of Rothenburg. He was cited with high approval by Isaac Lattes. He is the author of Migdal Dawid, on Jewish theology. It expounds the Jewish [principles of faith] and is patterned after Maimonides' Book of Commandments.