After a brief introduction to the Confraternity of St. Anne in Dos Hermanas (Spain), this article offers a transcription of its orig­inal 1523 statutes and their translation into English. Aside from be­ing the oldest surviving document from Dos Hermanas, these statutes outline the confraternity’s social and devotional objectives and point to the full participation of both men and women in its administration and activities.

Original publication: González, Juan Gavala. “The Original Statutes of the Ancient and Royal Brotherhood of Our Lady Saint Anne in Dos Hermanas, Spain: Introduction.” Confraternitas 24 (1): 2013. 3-6. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v24i1.20007. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.