Solomon Ibn Abūn

The identity of Solomon Ibn Abūn, apparently active in the last quarter of the twelfth century, is not entirely clear. Some speculate that he was a northern French liturgical poet. Solomon’s name appears on two fifteenth-century medical manuscripts, written by an Ashkenazic copyist, although one of these works is also transmitted under the name of another author. Both Arabic and Old French words appear in these Hebrew texts, suggesting that the author migrated northward or perhaps hailed from a family of Arabic speakers.