[Manuscript account book of a landowner in the Bourges region of France].
Bookseller's description, translated from French: Contains the accounts of a landowner with his tenant farmers, specializing in sheep farming south of Bourges, France. It provides names of the tenants (but not the landowner), status of livestock at shearing, purchases and sales of livestock dur...
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| Language: | French |
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| Summary: | Bookseller's description, translated from French: Contains the accounts of a landowner with his tenant farmers, specializing in sheep farming south of Bourges, France. It provides names of the tenants (but not the landowner), status of livestock at shearing, purchases and sales of livestock during the previous financial year, sales of animal products, and the distribution of income between owner and tenant as well as the payment of the wool and meat tithe to the owner. Cattle breeding, although less important, is also mentioned with the purchase and sale of draft oxen, cows, and bulls. The main towns mentioned are Serruelles, Marigny, Châteauneuf-sur-Cher, Lapan, and Chérigny. |
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| Item Description: | Dried plant specimens inserted after text was written; specimens identified with some usage in animal medicine. Pages numbered on recto only; not all pages contain writing. Purchased in rough shape in 2019; University Libraries Conservator Jeanne Goodman removed plant specimens to preserve them in separate matted carriers and then conserved the volume (pages mended, spine relaxed then rebacked, sympathetic modern paper cover created with modern endpapers, original parchment front cover re-mounted); conservation work completed 2025. |
| Physical Description: | 373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm |