Dear Rabbi Kornfeld
I was asked as to how or who made the division of the perkaim and halachot in the Yerushalmi so different form the Bavliand when was this done .Perhaps in a latter time as to help the printing .Do you have anything on this.Thanking you for all your great work.
Moshe Barron Telz-Stone
Dear Rav Barron,
The Shekalim printed in the original Bavli , Venice printing (5282 - 1522), is printed straight with no breaks or divisions.
But in the Crakow printing of the Yerushalmi (5369 - 1609), which was one of the first printings of the Yerushalmi, it was already divided into Halachos, but all of the Mishnayos were compiled at the beginnings of each Perek, and only the Gemara itself was divided. (The division of the Perakim of the various printings are all basically the same. It is the division of the Mishnayos in each Perek, in the printings that do set them apart, differ.)
However, in the division of the Halachos there are also differences among the various printings, such that on occasion, two different commentators will refer to the same Halachah with different citations (one refers to it as Halachah Beis, and the other refers to it as Halachah Gimel).
As to who specifically made these inconsistent divisions, I don't know, sorry.
Be well
Mordecai