Vartel

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Vartel , Vartl or also Fardel (probably from the Italian. Fardello : a bundle, a package) was piece and counting measure in the textile industry, which was common in Upper Germany, especially in Ulm , and was the same in Nuremberg and Vienna , for example .

  • 1 Vartel = 45 Barchand / Barchant / Barchent / Barchet
  • 1 barchand = 22 cubits

or

Presumably there is a relationship with Barchent , similar to the Golsch .

literature

  • Johann Kleemann, Johann Wilhelm Baier: The great Nuremberg arithmetic book. Kohles, Nürnberg / Altdorf 1715, p. 39.
  • Jürgen Elert Kruse : General and especially Hamburg office clerk: who not only gives a complicated message about the currencies, coins, weights, measures, types of exchange and customs of the most distinguished cities and countries in and outside Europe . Part 1, publishing house of the author's heirs, Hamburg 1782, p. 327.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Gebhardt: Arithmetic and Algebraic Writings of the Early Modern Era: Proceedings of the scientific colloquium "Arithmetic and Algebraic Writings of the Early Modern Era" from 22.-24. April 2005 in the mountain and Adam-Ries town of Annaberg-Buchholz (= writings of the Adam-Ries-Bund Annaberg-Buchholz. Volume 17). Verlag Adam-Ries-Bund, 2005, ISBN 3-930430-68-1 .
  2. a b Fardel. In: Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture. Volume 12, Berlin 1777. (online version)
  3. ^ Joachim Heinrich Campe: Dictionary of the German language. Volume 2: F to K . School book. 1808, p. 23. (books.google.de)
  4. ^ German foreign dictionary. Volume 3, Walter de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-11-015741-1 , p. 155ff.