of Constantinople (RANa”CH). Teshuvoth Shailoth [responsa]

ELIJAH IBN CHAIM

n.p

.Constaninople

c.1610

FIRST EDITION. This copy with the signature on the title-page of the ChID”A (Chaim Joseph David Azulai)

Vinograd, Venice 1067; Yaari, Const. 242

THE CHAIM JOSEPH DAVID AZULAI (THE CHID”A) COPY, WITH HIS SIGNATURE ON THE TITLE-PAGE. There is some confusion among bibliographers as to the correct place and date of printing of this edition. The preponderance of opinions suggest that it is a Constantinople imprint, as stated on the title page. As regards the date, Yaari suggests between the years 1603-1617, the years of Sultan Ahmed I reign, whose Court is noted on the title page. Page 185 contains an internal title for the author’s novellae to the Talmudic Tractate Kethuvoth - not noted by Yaari. See Y. Hacker, Areshet, vol. V, p. 493. Se also the article by A. M. Habermann on the various transmigrations concerning the publication of this work in Sepher Assaf (Jerusalem,1953) pp. 217-20