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Commentary on the Sifre, a halakhic midrash to the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. R. Hillel compares portions of the Sifre with parallel passages in the Talmud, translating the difficult words into Greek. Chapters 1-30 are missing. Hillel's commentary on chaps. 31-61 is followed by a second anonymous commentary. Written in a Byzantine semi-cursive script in brown ink; bound in beige buckram. Scribe: Mordekhai ben Yosef ben Adreʻi. ברוך רחמנא דסייע לעבידה בר אמיתיה להשלים זה הספר יום ג׳ בשבת י״א לחדש ניסן המכובד שנת השמ״ז ליצירה [1587] אני הכותב ... מרדכי בן יוסף בן אדרעי -- Colophon. Hillel ben Eliakim was a Greek Talmudic scholar best known for his commentaries on the tannaitic midrashim. This manuscript was the basis for the editio princeps of 1948. There are 4 other known extant manuscripts of Hillel's commentary on the Sifre. Physical manuscript previously owned by Malkiel; Isaac Sabani of Adrianople; Hayim ben Moshe Picciotto; David Solomon Sassoon.