Mano (unit)

The Mano , also Mao, was a Portuguese unit of measure for paper and can be translated as "hands". It was a smaller unit across from the Ries . The measure was used in the paper trade.

The paper was packed in bales of 32 reams. 1 ream had 17 manos plus 3 arches

• 1 manos = 5 cadernos = 25 sheets
• 1 caderno = 1 layer = 5 sheets
• 1 ream = 428 sheets

A so-called double ream was only about 1 mano larger than the ream. The mano itself had a different number of positions here, and so had exactly

• 1 double row = 18 manos plus 2 arches = 434 arches
• 1 mano = 4 cadernos per 6 arcs = 24 arcs

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ... Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 512 (page missing: Text archive - Internet archive see section piece goods ).
• Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight… Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 289 ( books.google.ch ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and relationships to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 236.