Bigoncia

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Bigoncia , the bucket, Bigot, Italian Bigontia or Bigonzo (Latin Congius), was an Italian measure of volume and was used in Venice .

It was a so-called wine measure. The amphora had 4 bigoncia. Other terms were Biconzia, Biconzo, Bivongio, and Bicongius . The latter name was the old Roman one. A small difference in the wine measure was made with cellar wine and customs wine.

  • Cellar wine 1 Bigoncia = 2 Barile / Mastelli / Concie = 14 Secchie = 56 Libbre

The relationships were different with brandy.

  • 1 Bigoncia = 3 ½ Quartari = 14 Secchie = 56 Libbre

literature

  • Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828.

Individual evidence

  1. Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Volume 1, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1797, p. 1850.
  2. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1327.
  3. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici, Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. VIII.
  4. Samuel C. Bunzel: New commercial arithmetic book. Volume 2, Jakob Bieling, Nuremberg 1789, p. 54.
  5. ^ Franz Wilhelm Klenner: Handbook for the topographical trading map of the Austrian Imperial State. Hof- und Staats-Aerarial Druckerei, Vienna 1833, p. 246.
  6. Samuel C. Bunzel: New commercial arithmetic book. Volume 2, Jakob Bieling, Nuremberg 1789, p. 197.