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We have enacted this sale—I, Solomon ben Reuben, to Don Bonoso Balshin, as written above in Latin script—for 140 pieces of gold, of a portion of the field of Cogol, in the month of Iyyar, in the year 4836 to the creation of the world [1076 CE]. I agreed to sign it, by means of a legal act of acquisition from me, which they performed.
Nathan ben Solomon
Shealtiel ben Solomon
Translated by Avi Steinhart.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 3: Encountering Christianity and Islam.
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