Barsella

Barsella , also Barcella or Barchilla , was a Spanish measure of volume in Alicante and Valencia , Mallorca and Menorca and was used as a common measure of fruit and grain . In different places it also had different contents.

• in Alicante had 1 Cahiz / Catisse / Caffise = 12 Barsella
  • 1 Barsella = 1035 Parisian cubic inches = 20.5 liters
• Mahon in Minorca and Palma in Mallorca
  • 1 Barsella = 8 Almudas = 606 1/6 Parisian cubic inches = 12 liters
  • 6 barcellas = quartera
• Valencia
  • 1 Barsella = 839 ¾ Parisian cubic inches = 16 13/20 liters
  • 1 Barsella = 4 Almudas = 4 Celemines = 8 Medios = 16 Quarterones

literature

• Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers. Volume 1, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 448.
• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world .... Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 16.