Bidspirit auction | ALFANDARI, CHAIM BEN YITZCHAK. Seder

ALFANDARI, CHAIM BEN YITZCHAK. Seder Eliyah Rabbah VeZuta [laws of Agunoth]. First Edition.  Title within architectural arch. ff. (2), 132, 69, (1). Foxed. Contemporary calf, worn. Folio. Vinograd, Const. 406. Constantinople, Yonah ben Ya’akov Ashkenazi, 1719.     The author (d. 1717) was a rabbi in Constantinople and member of the prestigious Alfandari family. The work is divided into two parts; novellae on the nature of the laws of the Agunah (chained women), and responsa on the same subject.