The "Auto de fe" in Granada in 1615. Edition of the manuscript B. Res. 140681 (Fols. 313-317) of the Library of the University of Sevilla

Abstract

The object of this article is the edition of the unpublished manuscript of the relacion of the "Auto de fe” celebrated in Granada in 1615, and includes an introductory text contextualizing the Auto in the mark of the history of the Spanish Inquisition, especially of the inquisitorial court of Granada, including la transcription of the manuscript. The manuscript is part of a volume hold in the Biblioteca de la Facultad de Derecho de la University of Seville and it responds, in general lines, to the model more generalized of these chronicles, which contains the description of the ephemeral architecture (podiums, stands, decoration of the streets and squares), quality, composition and number of the participants in the different processions, the public reading of the sentences and the description of the execution, in this case, of a single woman delivered to the secular arm.