He compiled an encyclopedia entitled Sha'ar ha-Shamayim (Door of Heaven) in Hebrew, which was widely read later in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
[1] He lived in southern France (Languedoc or Provence), possibly at Arles.
[1] He died, possibly at Perpignan, toward the end of the thirteenth century.
Catalan compiled his encyclopedia, entitled Sha'ar ha-Shamayim (Door of Heaven) some time after the 1270's, probably still at the end of the thirteenth century.
[1] A number of citations are to be found in David Kaufmann, Die Sinne.