Panilla

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Panilla or Cuarteron was a Spanish measure of the volume of oil . The measure was one of the smaller in the oil arroba's dimensional chain . The measure actually belongs to the unit of mass, because it was a quarter of the Castilian pound and was equated with this as a measure of volume.

1 panilla = 0.1256 liters

The dimensional chain was

1 oil arroba / arroba menor = 25 libras = 100 panillas / cuarterones = 400 onzas / ounces = 12.564 liters

literature

Ludolph Schleier: The commercial science. Fest Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1848, p. 102.
M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight customers taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvath, Potsdam 1859, p. 77.