Tiḳune ha-sheṭarot (Gaster Hebrew MS 1837)

The 3rd of the holy ones, on the fifth day, and on the 26th of Kislev third month of the civil year, late autumn/early winter, and in the year five thousand four hundred and eight of the creation of the world corresponding to 1647 CE, according to the reckoning that we are accustomed to counting here in the holy community of Lwów. How they came before us, saying: "Be witnesses for us, and acquire from us, from now and in the presence of the four citizens likely representatives of the city council or Jewish community leadership whose names are specified within the page, their conduct, their ordinance, and their return, in everything for which we have obligated our souls, and in what we have placed before you, which we have received and written, and in everything that is appropriate for us and for our children and for all in the dedication of the page, as in the holy Sabbath, as is fitting for my wisdom, appropriate for the measure, for our sake and for our innocence, on the festival, as all your eyes see, in what is laid out in the streets and in our dwellings, according to the law and the decree and the collection of debts from now on, by the help of the Almighty, to the holy congregation..."

Debt Deed

In our presence, the undersigned witnesses, how Mr. Azriel? Feinstein? obligated himself and took upon himself a complete debt, and it was done with the goodness and will of So-and-so, son of So-and-so, and all that is done with their kindness for the sake of? So-and-so, along with the rest of his offerings in the division mentioned, in the presence and in the view of the members of our people. And they obligated themselves in the conduct of the page, as children beloved to us, and in all his meager leanings, it remains in the mentioned debt deed, and in our hands, according to the stronghold in this, and by my hand for years, with the help of the Almighty, the perfection of the law and the life of kindness and the life as a leopard metaphor for strength and agility, except for the explanation of the son-in-law. And he obligated himself with his soul and his branches, therefore we performed a formal acquisition kinyan a legal act of acquisition/transaction that will not be annulled, and his branches, etc. It is appropriate for them in their deeds, as long as there is for us a valid claim until all the debts are completed in everything that was withheld and not delayed, and it is finished with all the acquisition and written. Also, upon acquisition, and it is pleasant, and the end of the verse of judgment.

I, Mr. Nathanael, son-in-law of the late Isaac Sapir, admit that all the matters explained above were spoken in justice, etc., the matter of the gate and that which pertains to it.