Vasquez, Dionysius

Vasquez, Dionysius a Spanish monk, was born June 5, 1500, at Toledo. He was a very learned man, and one of the first who undertook the edition of the Biblia Complutensia, which cardinal Ximenes proposed. He died June 1,1539. His writings, in Latin and Spanish, are mostly in MS. See Antonii Biblioth. Hispanica; Gandulphus, De 200 Scriptoribus Augustinianis; Jocher, Allgemneines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)