Andres, Juan, a Spanish canonist, b. at Xativa, or San Felipe, in Valencia. Of Moorish extraction, he became a Christian in 1587 and entered the priesthood. On the fall of Granada Ferdinand the Catholic invited him to labour in that city for the conversion of the Moors. He wrote a translation in Spanish of the Koran and a work entitled “Confusion de la secta mahometana” (Seville, 1537). It. is a work frequently quoted against Mohammedanism. The English version is by Joshua Notstock (London, 1652). According to Fuster, Andres was also author of a rare work entitled ‘ Practica de Arithmética” (Valencia, 1515; Seville, 1537).
Antonio, Biblioth. hispana, II, 325; Ximeno, Lscritores del reyno de Valencia, I, 75.
Thomas Walsh.