Bisacca

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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

  1. ^ Hermann Haack : Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XXVI.