Mandate of King Sigismund I the Old restricting the trade rights of Lviv Jews

Sigismund, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, etc., lord and heir. To all and individual dignitaries and officials, voivodes, starosts, leaseholders, heirs, nobility, reeves, as well as mayors and town councillors of cities and towns, and superiors of any places, and their deputies, to whom this letter shall come, sincerely and faithfully beloved by us, royal grace. We make it known to you and to each of you by this letter that, although we previously gave the Lviv Jews the ability to trade in all kinds of goods and in all ways according to the pleasure of our will, yet having greater regard, as is fitting, for the general public of the burghers and merchants of the same city of Lviv, we have thus restricted and do restrict the aforementioned ability granted to the Jews, so that the Lviv Jews themselves and any other foreigners should not trade except during fairs, buying only for cloth cut by the ell or for cash, oxen, wax, and raw ox, cow, sheep, and calf hides, and nothing else besides those mentioned above; nor should they, on market days or any other days, circulate through towns and villages, [buying?] or selling any things, but should wait for the fairs under penalty of losing those same things. Therefore, we command you that, upon the call in the name of these Lviv burghers and merchants, you arrest and seize all things and goods which these Jews would dare to occupy and sell or acquire contrary to this ordinance, and order them to be delivered and kept for the benefit of our treasury at our Lviv castle, and deliver them, not daring to act otherwise under penalty of our displeasure. Given in our city of Piotrków, at the general sejm, on the Monday next before the feast of the Nativity of the Lord, in the year one thousand five hundred and twenty-first, the fifteenth year of our reign. [Chancery note:] By the own order of His Royal Majesty [Seal:] [In the lower part of the parchment, the remains of a signet seal under red wax and a paper wafer, with radial incisions] [Verso:] [Note from the 16th/17th century:] Order of Sigismund I / On the restricted trade of Jews. / 1521 [Chancery/archival note:] One thousand five hundred and twenty-first [In red ink:] Second rubric. / Letter B. Number 33 [Other archival notes:] No Ser 5 / 3tio / Anno 1521 / ad Fasc. 257 / N 5 / 28/33 [Ink seal:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT ACTS OF THE CITY OF LVIV

Sigismundus dei gratia Rex Polonie Magnus Dux Lithwanie Russie Prussieq[ue] etc[etera] dominus et heres Vniuersis et singulis Dignitarijs et officialibus, Palatinis, Capitaneis, Tenutarijs, heredibus, Nobilibus, Advocatis ac Ciuitatum et oppidorum proconsulibus et Consulibus, et quorumcumq[ue] locorum prefectis, eorumq[ue] vicesgerentibus, presentibus requirendis sincere nobis et fidelibus dilect[is] gratia[m] regia[m]. Manifestum vobis et cuilibet vestrum facimus per p[rese]ntes, Quia licet prius dederimus facultatem Ivdeis Leopolien[sibus], omnigenis mercibus et modis mercandi, ad nostre voluntatis beneplacitum, tamen maiorem rationem habentes, sicuti id decens est, comonum ciuium et mercatorum eiusdem ciuitatis Leopolien[sis], predictam facultatem Ivdeis concessam, ita limitauimus et limitamus, q[uod] ipsi Ivdei Leopolien[ses] et alij quicunq[ue] externi non debent mercari, nisi tempore Nundi= narum, coemendo duntaxat pro panno vlnatim incidendo, aut parata pecunia, boues, ceram, et pelles crudas bouinas, vaccinas, mutoninas et vitulinas, et nichil aliud preter predicta, nec etiam diebus forensibus et alijs quibuscumq[ue] diebus per oppida et villas, res aliquas [coemendo?] aut vendendo discurrere debent, sed expectare debent Nundinas sub amissione earundem reru[m]. Quocirca mandamus vobis, vt cum requisiti fueritis nomine ipsorum ciuium et mercatorum Leopolien[sium], res et merces quascunq[ue] ad quas ipsi Ivdei contra huiusmodi ordinationem se ingesserint, et eas vendiderint vel comparaverint arrestetis et recipiatis, ac pro fisco nostro ad Castrum nostrum Leopolien[se] illas extradi et conseruari faciatis, ac extradatis, pro gratia nostra aliter facere non ausuri. Dat[um] in oppido nostro Pyotrkow, in Conuentione generali feria secunda proxima ante festum Nativitatis dominj, Anno Millesimo quingentesimo vigesimo primo, Regni nostrj anno quintodecimo. [Nota kancelaryjna:] Ad Mandatum Regie Maiestatis proprium [Pieczęć:] [W dolnej części pergaminu pozostałość pieczęci sygnetowej pod czerwonym woskiem i papierowym opłatkiem, z nacięciami promienistymi] [Verso:] [Nota z XVI/XVII w.:] Sigismundi Imi Mandatum / De Judaeorum limitata mercatura. / 1521 [Nota kancelaryjna/archiwalna:] Millesimo Quingentesimo Vigesimo Primo [Czerwonym atramentem:] Rubrica Secunda. / Litt. B. Nro 33tio [Inne noty archiwalne:] No Ser 5 / 3tio / Anno 1521 / ad Fasc. 257 / N 5 / 28/33 [Pieczęć tuszowa:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA