Tesa (unit)

The Tesa , also Tessa in Sicily (Kingdom), was an Italian measure of length and corresponded to the fathom . The name was also used for the Tesa room dimension. The Tesa is sometimes equated with the term pertica , but often corresponds to a rod . The deviations in the tape are due to the different foot dimensions

0.3659 meters for 1 piede, the Austrian foot and
0.34251 meters for 1 piede manuale, as a Piedmontese foot measurement

Sicily

1 Tessa = 6 Piede manuali = 4 Pide librandi = 2.065 meters

Trent

Length measurement: 1 Tesa = 6 Piedi = 1.1575 Viennese fathoms = 2.1954 meters

Trieste

Firewood measure: 1 Tesa = 5 Piedi

Turin

Length measure

1 Tesa / thread = 5 Piedi manuali = 1.712553 meters

Haymass

The Tesa cuba was a hay measure from Turin and another term for cubic fathoms.

1 Tesa cuba = 124 Piedi manuali cubi = 5.022642 ster = 5.022642 cubic meters
also 1 Tesa cuba = 5.0414 cubic meters / stere

The measure represented a cube five feet long in three directions. The Tesa cuba was always divided into five, so Quinti for the fifth, Quinti di quinto for the twenty-fifth and finally the hundred twenty-fifth or common cubic feet (Piede manuali cubi). But hay could also be sold by weight.

Firewood measure

1 piece of tape = 4.0331 cubic meters

Malta

1 Miglio / mile = 3 Leghe = 660 Tese / fathoms = 4536 = 1407 Piedi yard (Engl.) = 1286.54 meters

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 316.
^ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan; Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all countries and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 120.
^ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states ..., Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 50.
^ Hermann Haack : Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XXIV.
^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1296.

[1] Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 316.

[2] Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan; Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all countries and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 120.

[3] Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent states ..., Verlag Jasper, Hügel u. Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 50.

[4] Hermann Haack : Geographisches Jahrbuch. Volume 1, Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1866, p. XXIV.

[5] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1296.