Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil (13th century) (Hebrew: יצחק בן יוסף מקורבי"ל) was a French rabbi and Tosefist who flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. he is best known as the author of Sefer Mitzvot Ḳaṭan.
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