Prime (unit)
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.