Elijah ben Joseph Ḥabillo (), also known as Maestro Manoel, was a Spanish Jewish philosopher and translator active in Monzón, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Ḥabillo studied Latin with the purpose of translating into Hebrew works of Christian scholastic philosophers, particularly writings on psychology.
Translations Ḥabillo translated and adapted several works of Thomas Aquinas:
Quaestiones Disputatae, Quaestio de AnimaSteinschneider, Catalogus Hamburgensis, no. 267. De Animae Facultatibus (Maʿamar be-Koḥot ha-Nefesh)Adolf Jellinek, Philosophie und Kabbala (Leipzig, 1854). De UniversalibusSteinschneider, Catalogus Hamburgensis, no. 267. Sheʾelot Maʿamar be-Nimtsa u-ve-Mahut, questions on Aquinas' treatise concerning being and qualityNeubauer, Catalogue of the Bodleian Hebrew Manuscripts, no. 24538.
Ḥabillo also translated William of Ockham's Summa Totius Logices (with an added appendix) and Quaestiones Philosophicae, as well as Aristotle's De Causa, which contains thirty-two premises with explanations. According to Jellinek and Steinschneider, he was also responsible for an anonymous Hebrew translation of Vincent of Beauvais' De Universalibus, under the title Maʿamar Nikbad bi-Kelal.
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