[Heb-NACO] Shut: Infering vernacular. Ravah vs. Rav. h.

[Robert Talbott]

Heidi, Joan, the rest of you:

I'm working my way through an authority for Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi 
Tenenboim, and I've come up against a couple of issues rating communal 
advice.

1) On the peice in hand, I hand a vernacular form for the authors full 
name (Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi Tenenboim).  In LC's on-line database there 
is a romanized variant usage for which I do not have a vernacular form 
(Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi). Malki'el Tsevi ha-Levi is obviously making an 
encore 4000n appearance in my authority, but is it legal to make a 
parallel x-ref for the vernacular if I don't have an explicit vernacular 
form?  Or is it permitted to infer/decode/rearrange based on the 
vernacular on my piece in-hand?

2) Mr. Malkiel is titled resh bet heh (without gershayim) shel Lomzah.  
I take this to be rashe tevot for rav ha-kadosh, but since it's written 
without gershayim, how should it be romanized?  I keep going back and 
forth between rav h. and ravah.  I saw nothing in ES (the big red one, 
c2003).

Cheers and happy Friday

Bob