Prime (unit)

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Prime was one of the small masses of grain and wine in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland .

The general rule was in Lucerne

1 ohm = 30 measure = 120 bottles = 1200 prime
16 primes = 1 immi
160 primes = 1 quarter
640 primes = 1 Mütt
2560 primes = 1 malter
1 prime = 11 Parisian cubic inches = 1/5 liter

in Sursee the measure was

1 prime = 7 Parisian cubic inches = 1/7 liter

and in Willisau

1 prime = 8 6/13 Parisian cubic inches = 1/6 liter

Were in Prussia and Braunschweig

800 priming / Peinen = 1 Lachter

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world , Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 258.

Individual evidence

^ Association of practical merchants, newest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of all trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 2, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 417.