TWO INKS FOR THE SAME CODEX

Abstract

The paper proposes the origin of the Brotherhood of Silence of Seville in 1562, once the data provided with the analysis of the inks of the Rules of 1642 by de Andalusian Institute of Historical Artistic Heritage has been interpreted; and on the other hand with the transversal analysis of the statement of the Elder Brother, Tomás Pérez, before the Archbishop of Seville, in 1621. From this a series of inaccuracies are deduced that demonstrate that his statement was not based on the reading of a previous text. The same happens with the information about the foundation of the corporation in the church of Omnium Sanctorum, impossible in the chapel of the Cervantes in 1356, well in that chronology, which does correspond with the aforementioned bishop, the temple was closed due to the works of an important expansion that kept it closed and in a pool for several years. This is without taking into account the date of the construction of the aforementioned chapel, already in the 15th century, and its granting to Gonzalo Gómez Cervantes in 1416.