Note 505 — Chapter IV · ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INQUISITION.

Inquisitor-general Manrique caused the Instruciones Antiguas to be printed collectively, with a supplement classifying the several articles under the head of the officials whose duties they defined. This was issued in Seville in 1537 and a copy is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Arch. Seld. A. Subt. 15. Another edition was issued in Madrid in 1576, a copy of which is in the Biblioteca Nacional of Madrid, Seccion de MSS. S, 299, fol. 1. It was reprinted again in Madrid, in 1627 and 1630, together with the Instruciones Nuevas, by Caspar Isidro de Arguello. It is to this last edition that my references will be made. All these texts vary in some particulars from the originals preserved in the Simancas Archives, Inquisicion, Libro 933. Where such deviations are of importance they will be noted hereafter. Professor Ernst Schäfer has performed the service of reprinting the Arguello edition, with a German translation, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte,1904.

Llorente (Hist. Crít. cap. VI, art. 1) has given an abstract of the Instruciones Antiguas. Curiously enough, in none of the official collections are included the instructions issued by Torquemada in December, 1484, and January, 1485, except in a few extracts. As they have never been printed I give them in the Appendix, together with the 1500 Instructions of Seville, which are likewise for the most part inedited. What Llorente printed as Torquemada’s additions (Añales, I, 388) are merely the extracts gathered from Arguello’s compilation, where they are credited to El prior en Sevilla, 1485.