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

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 WMS/Amer.90a-90b
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full 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
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

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.

Archival Information

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

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

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.