Trapeso
The Trapeso , also Trappaso , Trapasso or Trapaso , was an Italian measure of weight. The gold and silver weights were known in Malta and in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies .
There were only insignificant differences in the regions in the assignments of the other measures.
Malta:
- 1 oncia = 32 trapezoids
- 1 lira = 384 trapezoids
- 1 Trapeso = 18 Grani = 21/25 grams
Sicily and Naples:
- 1 Libbra = 360 trapezoids = 320.759 grams
- 1 Trapeso = 0.89 grams
- 1 Oncia = 32 Trapesi = 600 Acini = 9/10 grams
literature
- Heinrich August Pierer (Ed.): Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 17 . Altenburg 1863, p. 760.
- Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. For merchants, bankers, money changers, coin collectors. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg 1830, p. 354. (under the pseudonym Johann Friedrich Niemann ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Joseph von Littrow : Comparison of the most excellent measures, weights and coins with the most common in the Austrian imperial state. F. Becksche Universitätsbuchhandlung, Vienna 1832, p. 76.
- ↑ August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Contains the coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1839, p. 321.
- ↑ Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler : Physical dictionary or attempt at an explanation of the most elegant terms and artificial words of the theory of nature . Verlag Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7728-1647-9 (Volume 11, p. 381, reprint of the Leipzig edition 1845).