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The documents behind the stories.
Archival sources, editions and studies on the history of Merino sheep and wool. A catalogue accompanying the MDL Notebook and growing with its articles.
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Edition or transcription · Mediterranean
Camillo Minieri Riccio
The edition reports an order to purchase 700 ewes and 300 rams in Barbary and transport them to Castellammare di Stabia for manufacturing purposes. A source for wool policy in the Angevin Mediterranean.
OPEN RECORDArchival document · Mediterranean
Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille
Prescriptions concerning the royal household and its offices: woollen cloth, tariffs on rams and lambs, and overseas navigation. The manuscript also transmits thirteenth-century provisions.
OPEN RECORDArchival document · Mediterranean
Archivio di Stato di Genova
A notarial act concerning 49 sacks of wool called merin(us), shipped from Tunis or its territory and transshipped at Porto Pisano. Evidence of commercial naming and Mediterranean wool circulation.
OPEN RECORDEdition or transcription · Spain
Juan Manuel · ordinanze per Peñafiel
Chapter 7 of the transcription contains the expression ‘oveias merin(a)s’ in a provision to procure sheep for cloth-making. A reference to the relationship between husbandry and manufacturing in Castile.
OPEN RECORDArchival document · Italy
Archivo de la Corona de Aragón
A mandate concerning the movement of ten thousand sheep and one thousand larger animals from Abruzzo to Apulia and Capitanata. A source on the royal administration of livestock.
OPEN RECORDArchival document · Italy
Archivo de la Corona de Aragón
The royal commission concerns livestock movement, pasture leases and protection for those involved in pastoral activity. A document illuminating the administrative infrastructure of husbandry.
OPEN RECORDArchival document · Italy
Archivio di Stato di Napoli
An account relating to productive assets and livestock on a royal farm. Context for the administration of pastoral and manufacturing activities in fifteenth-century southern Italy.
OPEN RECORDStudy · Mediterranean
Valentina Niola · Rives nord-méditerranéennes
A diplomatic study identifying and dating Angevin formularies. Pages 84–85 describe B260 and distinguish the chronology of the copy from that of the provisions it transmits.
OPEN RECORDStudy · International
Elena Ciani et al. · Genetics Selection Evolution
A genomic analysis of 671 individuals from 37 sheep populations. The study relates population structure and gene flow to historical scenarios for the spread of Merino sheep.
OPEN RECORDStudy · Spain
Jesús Tejero Esteban · Cuaderno de Peñafiel
An introduction to the ordinances manuscript, referring to the edition by Ribera Manescau. A guide to consulting the Peñafiel documentary material.
OPEN RECORDEdition or transcription · Mediterranean
Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella
The passage from Columella cited in the opening Notebook article concerning Apulian and Tarentine sheep and an account of crossbreeding with rams from Africa.
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