(MaHaRaSHa”CH OF SALONIKA). Shailoth Uteshuvoth [responsa]. Three parts in three volumes.

SOLOMON BEN ABRAHAM HAKOHEN

D. Azubib, G. di Gara & M. Bath-Sheva

Salonika & Venice

1586-1594

FIRST EDITION. Title of Part II within architectural woodcut border. Parts I and III printed without a title page.

Vinograd, Salonika 116 and132; Vol II:Vinograd, Venice 775 and Salonika 121A; Habermann, di Gara 138; not in Adams

Having printed the first volume of this work of responsa with the short-lived Printing House of David Azubib in his home town of Salonika, the author sent the second volume to be printed in Venice. When Matathias Bath-Sheva and Sons established a printing operation in Salonika in 1592, R. Solomon, as he states in his introduction to the addenda of Volume II, saw no reason to continue the Venetian commission and thus they, along with the final volume of the work, were printed in Salonika. The 29 leaf addenda to Volume II was the first work printed by the House of Bath-Sheva. See I. Mehlman, Gnuzot Sepharim (1973) pp.73-5. In his Shem Ha’Gedolim, CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID AZULAI cites R. Jacob Alfandari: “For us…MaHaRaSHa”CH is considered as the…RO”SH.”