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Submitted by Jack Hausner

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 5/13/2026 4:12 PM
Family Surname: Pfeffer
Country: Germany
Town: Mannheim
Date of Image: 1662
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This is a continuation of the entry on image 114416

This is an image from the Protokolbuch of the city of Mannheim, dated about 1662.
It concerns the Jud, Jakob Pfeffer.

I would very much appreciate a transcription and/or translation or any additional insights.

Thank you in advance
Jack Hausner

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5/14/2026 5:05 AM ... gestochenen Hammeln kein Pfund zu verkaufen. Mit Bitte, dass E.E. Rat, (weilen sie Metzger ihnen Vorstehern zu parieren verweigerten) ihnen dergleichen ebenfalls allesernstes ... , und also sie Juden bei ihrem angelegten Verbots hierin zu manutenieren, als ist die bekannte Judenmetzgers churfuerstliche Landesordnung vorgelesen und ihnen ernstlich befohlen worden, von denen bereits geschlachteten Hammeln das saemtliche Fleisch und Eingeweide so bald in den Neckar zu tragen. Die noch lebende Hammel ebenfalls ebenfalls ... an wiederum aus Mannheimer Gemarkung wegzutreiben, und ist ihnen ueber das die Herrschaftliche Strafe expresse vorbehalten worden.

[lots of words, just saying that the community elders ask the administration to enforce that the Jewish butchers, who refuse to obey, should throuw the butchered sheep into the Neckar river, and should drive out the living ones out of Mannheim]

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