Moggio (unit)

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Moggio , also Moggo, was an Italian measure of volume and grain .

First as an oil measure in Mantua , it was later used as a grain measure on the Ionian Islands and in the Kingdom of Tuscany . In Naples the term moggio or moggia (area measure) also stood for a field measure.

The measure continued to be used after 1803, when the metric system was introduced.

Oil measure

  • Mantua 1 Moggio = 5614 Parisian cubic inches = 111.25 liters (= 117 liters)
  • Siena / Tuscany 1 Moggio = 26,857 Parisian cubic inches = 532 1/5 liters
  • Ithaca 1 Moggio = 5 Bacile = 8882 Parisian cubic inches = 176 liters

Grain measure

  • Florence 1 Moggio = 8 Sacci = 24 Staja / Stari = 48 Mine = 96 Quarti = 768 Mezzette = 1536 Quartucci = 584.7096 liters
  • Corfu, Paros 1 moggio = 8 misure = 1060.9 Parisian cubic inches = 21 1/40 liters
  • Ferrara (Papal States) 1 Moggio = 20 Stari / Staghe = 30,480 Parisian cubic inches = 604 liters (= 622 liters)
  • Milan 1 Moggio = 1 Sacco = 8 Stari = 16 Starelli = 32 Quartars = 7372 Parisian cubic inches = 146 1/12 liters
  • Padua 1 Moggio = 12 Staja = 48 Quartarula = 347.8 liters
  • Mantua = 1 Moggio = 8 Stari = 14,048 Parisian cubic inches = 278 3/8 liters
  • Lugano 1 Moggio = 8 Staja = 138.3784 liters

Here the measure also differed

    • 1 Moggio = 8 Staja = 16 Quartines = 153.51 liters
  • Theaki 1 Moggio = 5 Bacili = 168.421 liters
  • Venice 1 Moggi = 4 Stari = 8 Mezzeni = 16 Quarte = 48 Quartaroli = 83.317 liters

Coal measure

  • Milan The moggio was a measure of volume and was used as a measure of coal.

From 1813 onwards, the measure was only used deleted and corresponded to the new pint.

  • Milan 2nd version 1 Moggio = 11,143.4 Parisian cubic inches = 221.045 liters (= 225 liters)

The heaped measure was 11,348 Paris cubic inches.

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 718.
  • Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 624.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 200.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 293.
  2. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 338.
  3. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 178.
  4. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 448.
  5. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Verlag Teubner, Leipzig 1855, p. 69.