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Cadena y Sotomayor, Melchior Antonio de la (1539-1607)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.90a-90b

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Cadena y Sotomayor, Melchior Antonio de la (1539-1607)

Date(s): 1575-1600

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Sotomayor | Melchior Antonio | de la | Cadena | y | 1539-1607 | ecclesiastic

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Melchior Antonio de la Cadena y Sotomayor was born in 1539. He was an important figure in the ecclesiastical establishment of Mexico, serving as Canon and Dean of Tlaxcala, Maestrescuelas and Dean of Mexico cathedral and Chancellor of the University of Mexico (Rector for the term 1573/4). At the time of his death in 1607 he was Bishop-elect of Chiapas.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises two reports by Cadena seeking permission to transfer from Puebla (site of the cathedral of Tlaxcala) to the city of Mexico, on the grounds of ill-health.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Spanish

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

manuscript, bound.

Finding aids:

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection and had previously been in the collection of the Mexican bibliographer E. Valton (1880-1963).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Catholics | Christians | Religious groups
Clergy | Religious groups
General pathology and symptoms | Diseases | Pathology
Illness x Diseases

Personal names
Sotomayor | Melchior Antonio | de la | Cadena | y | 1539-1607 | Mexican ecclesiastic x Cadena y Sotomayor | Melchior Antonio

Corporate names

Places
Mexico | North America