Legal decree issued in the name of Cardinal Alderano Cibo to free the Jew, Samuel Hycim, imprisoned in Ancona.

After studies in Rome Alderano Cibo (or, Cybo, 1613-1700) was appointed papal prelate in the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII. In 1645 he was elevated to be cardinal and by 1689 was serving as the Cardinal Secretary of State, a papal appointment responsible for all the political and diplomatic functions of the Catholic Church and the second most important office in the Vatican. According to this document Cibo orders that a Jew be freed from prison after swearing with the “Hebrew rite” to liquidate the capital of a loan.