Knightly

The knightly measure was a grain measure in the Swiss canton of Solothurn .

It existed in addition to the commonly used 13.5 liters and differed greatly in size. The common Mäss was staggered in 1 Mäss = 4 Immi = 8 Achtelmäß = 16 Batzendingli = 667 ⅔ Paris cubic inch = 13.5 liters

1 knightly = 915 Parisian cubic inches = 18.15 liters
1 knightly = 914.917 Parisian cubic inches = 18.1497 liters

literature

Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete Manual of coins, weights and measures of all countries in the world ... . Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 167

Individual evidence

^ Association of practical merchants, general trade lexicon or encyclopedia of all commercial sciences, Volume 2 , Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 453.
↑ LF Hubert, Georg Thomas Flügels Cours-Zettel continued as a manual of coin, measure, weight and usage, Verlag der Jägerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1850, p. 264.

[1] Association of practical merchants, general trade lexicon or encyclopedia of all commercial sciences, Volume 2 , Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 453.

[2] LF Hubert, Georg Thomas Flügels Cours-Zettel continued as a manual of coin, measure, weight and usage, Verlag der Jägerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1850, p. 264.