Subject: Autos-da-fé

Manuscript in Spanish recounting the Auto de Fe held in Mexico City in 1747. The document details the trials of 23 individuals accused of Judaism, including their personal histories, accusations, and punishments. It features two full-page colored illustrations: the coat-of-arms of the Inquisition and the Order of Santo Domingo. The manuscript is 45 pages long, bound in later salmon-colored silk over limp boards with twin ties.

Manuscript report by Alonso Hernandez Bonilla, General Inquisitor of Mexico, detailing the Auto-da-Fé held in Mexico City on December 15, 1577. The report focuses on the case of Hernando Alvarez Pliego of Oporto, Portugal, accused of practicing Judaism. Written in Spanish, the two-page manuscript describes Pliego's confession under torture and mentions unnamed accomplices in his Jewish practices in Mexico. The document offers significant insight into the activities of the Mexican Inquisition, established in 1571, and its persecution of those accused of Judaizing. The report is dated December 20, 1577.

The June 1762 issue of The London Magazine, printed for R. Baldwin. This 56-page issue includes a translation of a sermon by Rabbi Akiba at Smyrna on the Portuguese Auto-da-fé, translated from the Hebrew by Voltaire. The text was most likely written by a Christian, not a Rabbi.