Don Crescas Vidal was a French Talmudist in the first half of the fourteenth century.
[1] Vidal went to Perpignan, France shortly before the outbreak of the fourth Maimonidian controversy, as acculturated Jews continued to synthesize Aristotelian thought with traditional Jewish philosophy.
Hence, he incurred the reproach of the orthodox when he emphatically sided with his friend Samuel Sulami, who had given shelter to the ostracized philosopher Levi ben Abraham of Villefranche.
Although Vidal did not openly espouse the cause of the unfortunate philosopher, his letters show how deeply he sympathized with him.
One survives in manuscript: the commentary on b. Nedarim usually attributed to Shlomo ibn Adret.