Notes
1. James C. Boyajian. Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993: 122.
2. S. D. Goitein. A Mediterranean Society, 5 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971: vol. 2, 293–6. See also Moshe Gil, “The Jewish Merchants in the Light of Eleventh-Century Geniza Documents.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46, no. 3 (2003): 273–319, at 280–82.
3. Francesca Trivellato. “Sephardic Merchants in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond: Toward a Comparative Approach to Business Cooperation.” In Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500–1800, edited by Richard L. Kagan and Philip D. Morgan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009: 99–120, at 116.