Bisacca
The Bisacca (also: Bisaccia , pl. Bisacche or Bisacce) was a measure of area and volume in Sicily . There was never a uniform definition of the Bisacca in Sicily, the measure varied locally. (See below) There was also a grain measure of the same name on the island.
Area unit
All area dimensions belonged to the older ones.
- General: 1 Bisacca = 4 Tumoli (also Tomoli) = 43.6565 Ar (= 4365.72 square meters )
- In addition: 1 Salma = 4 Bisacche = 4096 Canne squares (square Canne) = 17,462.88 square meters
- Messina: 1 bisacca (large measure) = 58.209 ares
- Messina: 1 bisacca (small measure) = 44.741 ares
- Palermo: 1 bisacca = 55.777 ares
Volume unit
The bisacca measure of volume was the measure of grain. A distinction was made between the legal standard and the standard used in practice.
- 1 Salma = 4 Bisacche = 275.09 liters
- Law: 1 Bisacca = 4 Tumoli = 68.773 liters
- Practice: 1 Bisacca = 69.433 liters
literature
- Measurement, weight and coin tables, along with other auxiliary tables for merchants, manufacturers, traders. Ebnersche Buchhandlung, Nuremberg 1856, p. 37.
- Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 34.
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 790.
- Ezra S. Winslow (Author and Ed.): The computist's manual of facts, and merchant's and mechanic's calculator and guide. Boston 1855, p. 49.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Haack : Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XXVI.