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This manuscript, dated September 9, 1482, is a lease contract for two Jewish inhabitants of Salamanca, Spain regarding half a courtyard and a garden that establishes permission to create a new Jewish quarter in the city. The contract reveals an initiative to construct a Jewish quarter with complete legality a decade before the mandatory expulsion of Jews following the Alhambra Decree of 1492; this challenges the traditional narrative that the Salamanca Jewish community experienced a steady decline from the 1470s until the Decree. less