GB 0120 WMS/Amer.90a-90b - Cadena y Sotomayor, Melchior Antonio de la (1539-1607)

2 volumes

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).
GB 0120 WMS/Amer.90a-90b 1575-1600 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Sotomayor , Melchior Antonio , de la , Cadena , y , 1539-1607 , ecclesiastic

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.

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).

Purchased 1962.

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.

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

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.
Spanish

manuscript, bound.

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.

description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price. 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. December 2000. Catholics Christians Clergy Diseases General pathology and symptoms Illness Mexico North America Pathology Religious groups Sotomayor , Melchior Antonio , de la , Cadena , y , 1539-1607 , Mexican ecclesiastic x Cadena y Sotomayor , Melchior Antonio

Purchased 1962.

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.

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

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.

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Spanish

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.

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.

• English