Cortane

The Cortane was a Spanish measure of volume and was primarily used in the province of Catalonia . The measure was quite different when compared as a grain , oil, or wine measure .

Grain measure

• 1 cortane = 4 picoline = 285 3/5 Parisian cubic inches = 5 ⅔ liters
• 12 Cortanes = 1 Quartera
• 48 cortanes = 1 salma

Wine measure

The measure was also approved for brandy .

• 1 Cortane = 344 7/16 Parisian cubic inches = 6 ⅞ liters
• 1 Cortane = 2 Cortarines / Quarteros = 6 Meitadella = 8 Quartos = 32 Porrones

Oil measure

• 1 Cortane = 4 quartos = 183 ½ Parisian cubic inches = 3.7 liters
• 3 Cortanes = 1 Arroba
• 12 Cortanes = 1 Odre
• 30 Cortanes = 1 carga

Oil was traded by weight it was

• 1 cortane / oil cortane = 3408 31/33 grams

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 50.
• Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 52.