Amina Boukail, University of Jijel- Algeria Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ms. Opp. Add. 4to 85 (Neubauer 1191) cols. 400-303, XC-XCI.
The following documents constitute a sampling of the gleanings culled along the way of research in the history of early modern Sephardic *kehillot*: 1. Document 1 is a letter taken from the correspondence of a Sephardic commission trader in Amsterdam involved in colonial trade between Amsterdam and Surinam in the 1720’s and 1730’s, Abraham da Costa, and describes in unusual details the preparation, storage and shipment of kosher items in Amsterdam (Stadsarchief Amsterdam). 2. Document 2 is a report on the making and the trading of Kosher wine in Bordeaux in mid-eighteenth century, found in the archives of the Intendance of Bordeaux, or the representative of Royal authority in the French provinces (1752, Archives départementales de la Gironde). 3. Document 3 is a sampling of two letters on the ordering, supplying and shipping of etroguim between Venice and Amsterdam in the 1770’s, taken from the copiador de cartas, that is the registers in which a copy of the outbound letters sent by the community Talmud Torah of Amsterdam and its various officials was kept( Stadsarchief Amsterdam). 4. Document 4 is composed of two letters sent from Tunis to Livorno in the 1720’s on- ,among other things- the issue of preparation and shipment of meat, on the production and sale of sifre torah, extracted from the incoming correspondence of the Livorno Nazione (Archives of the Jewish Community of Livorno).
The text presented here is an excerpt from the lengthy trial of Jews in Sandomierz accused of killing a Christian boy. The testimonies come from the first day after the body was discovered at the dawn of August 18th, 1710. They include three testimonies of the implicated Jews, the rabbi Jacob Herc, his thirteen-year-old son Abraham, and his seventeen-year-old son-in-law Jakub Schario and five additional testimonies of Christians.
Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem Archivio della Famiglia Morpurgo di Romans (P96) *Stampa Per il Sign. Giuseppe Morpurgo qu. Dott. Sanson anco come Assuntor di Giudicio. Al laudo*.
Charleston County Will Book, Volume 6, page 635; Chatham County Will Book, Volume A, 434; Charleston County Will Book, Volume 11, page 301 (all accessible on [Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com)).