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ID: 199416
General information
Shelfmark Vat.ebr.32

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Locus 1r-38r
Other author Ulsherago ben Leṿi (internal)
Other author Palṭoi ben Abaye, Gaʾon, sec. IX (internal)
Supplied title [ויקרא רבה]
Supplied title Midrash Leviticus Rabbah
Uniform title Midrash Rabbah. Leviticus
Summary Midrash Leviticus Rabbah, followed by a piyyut, an addition and a short responsum concerning a Torah scroll
Incipit text אדיר מקודם האיר אורה (f. 38r) Piyyut
Incipit text וברכת מגיח ירדן קויך אשר לעומתך מיחלים (f. 38r) Addition
Explicit text חסילא אגדתא דויקרא רבה
General note One page missing at the beginning until p. 12 in the M. Margaliot edition מדרש ויקרא רבה (Jerusalem 1953-1960). F. 1r is partly obliterated and parts are illegible. Two leaves are missing after f. 6 (= p. 147, line 2 to 168, line 2 in the edition) and another two leaves after f. 22 (= p. 474, line 1 to 507 line 5 in the edition).
General note The manuscript was described in the introduction to the Margaliot edition printed at the end of volume 5, p. 35.
General note At the end of the text of the Midrash on f. 38r the second scribe added a shortened poetical form of Grace after Meals ("Birkat ha-Mazon") beginning אדיר מקודם האיר אורה. According to the acrostic the name of the author of this "piyyut" is Ulsherago b. Levi אולשרגו בר לוי חזק (cf. colophon). It is followed by an addition in another hand, beginning וברכת מגיח ירדן קויך אשר לעומתך מיחלים. Yet another hand copied a short responsum by Paltoi Gaon concerning a Torah scroll.

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Shelfmark Vat.ebr.32
Other author/nameUlsherago ben Leṿi
Other author/namePalṭoi ben Abaye, Gaʾon, sec. IX
Uniform titleMidrash Rabbah. Leviticus