Botte (unit)

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Botte had three different meanings.

It was

  1. a volume measure,
  2. a piece measure and
  3. a wooden vessel.

Volume measure

The botte, also called Both or Botta , was an Italian measure of volume for liquids and corresponded to the measure of a barrel . In Spanish, the measure was also called Botta. Wine , brandy , wine vinegar and lemon juice were measured . The term Bott stood for Spanish wine. The oil boat was almost like the muid. In France, the term led Bottajo for Hooper on the word Botte. In Naples , according to an ordinance of 1811 (comparison of existing dimensions with metric dimensions), two Botti per caro were calculated.

Depending on the region, the botte measure was different depending on other measures.

  • Spain 1 Botta / Pipe = 30 Arobas (Cantaros) = 23,820 Parisian cubic inches = 472 liters
  • Portugal 1 Botte = 67 or 68 Veltes
  • Bretagne 1 Botte was based on the Velte with 4 pots each
  • Rome 1 botte = 3 brente = 9 barili = 40 ½ rubbi = 288 bocalli = 1152 foglietti = 20,349 4/5 Parisian cubic inches = 409 3/5 liters
  • Sicily 1 Botte = 4 Salme = 32 Barili = 64 Quartari = 1280 Quartucci = 2560 Caraffe = 5120 Bicchieri = 11.004 hectoliters
  • Sicily 1 botte = 100 quartieri = 25,206 Parisian cubic inches = 500 ¾ liters
  • Gallipoli (Sicily) 1 botte = 2 ¾ salme
  • Naples 1 botte = 12 barili
  • Naples 1 botte = 100 quartieri = 500 pints = 5.0266 hectoliters (in practice 5 hectoliters)
  • Venice 1 Botte = ½ Anfora = 4 Bigonzi = 16 Quartari = 64 Secchia = 4096 Inguistara
  • Venice 1 botte = 10 mastelli = 70 secchi
  • Venice 60 botte = 1 burchio
  • Venice (oil measure) 1 botte = 2 migliajo = 12.632 hectoliters
  • Venice (oil measure) 1 Botte = 2 Migliajo = 80 Miri = 61,502 Parisian cubic inches = 1218 liters
  • Vicenza 1 Botte = 8 Mastelli = 96 Secchie = 960 Ingistare = 72053 Paris 1388 cubic inches = 1/25 liters

Piece measure

Botte was a piece of measure in the so-called parchment trade in France and was called Botte de Parchemin . The measure stood for a number of hides, which were different amounts depending on the processing status. So corresponded

  • 1 botte of unscraped hides = 3 dozen
  • 1 botte of scraped hides = 18 cahiers of 4 hides each or 6 dozen (72 pieces or feuilles)

Then there was:

  • 1 botte de mouchoirs , which was a pack of 10 to 18 pieces of East Indian towels
  • 1 botte de soie = 1 batch of 16 Onces organ silk (flat silk)
  • 1 botte de chanvre corresponded to 1 bale of hemp with about 1.5  quintals in the Champange and Bourgogne.
  • In Troyes , 1 botte also meant 1 bunch of hemp yarn if it weighed 1 to 2  pounds .
  • The packet of strings for musical instruments was a botte de cordes de boyau .

literature

  • Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopedic merchant lexicon Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 2134.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.
  • Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863.
  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.

Web links

Wiktionary: Botte  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes: Physical dictionary. Ma, Volume 6, 2nd section, EB Schwickert, Leipzig 1836, p. 1385.
  2. ↑ a b c d Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 25.
  3. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 375.
  4. ^ Associations of Austrian Industrialists: Yearbook for Industry and Commerce in Austria. Volume 1, Kommissionsverlag Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1865, p. 14.
  5. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 572.