[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[a5foil]

Hello,

I don't have any of his books on hand, but I've obtained them through ILL in
the past. Dr. Ronald E. Zupko has books on:
British weights and measures from antiquity to the 17th century,
British weights and measures from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century,
British weights and measures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century,
A Dictionary of English weights and measures,
Revolution in Measurement: Western European weights and measures,
French weights and measures before the Revolution,
Italian weights and measures from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

His books are difficult to read (crammed typescript), but they do identify
when and where various terms were used, and how they equate to modern
measures. It was priceless when I was trying to figure out how big a
hogshead was in East Kent in 1577, or how big a gallon was in London and up
in the north country at the same time. The 15th century Italian measures
were very helpful because there are references to them in Catalunya as well
as Italy.

Regards,
Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: Cindy M. Renfrow <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Sca-cooks] online glossary


> Progress report
> The glossary file is up to 72K.  I just finished interfiling my glossary
> from Take a Thousand Eggs with that from Thorvald Grimsson / James
> Prescott's Viandier, as well as your suggestions & additions from the past
> week.
>
>
> Here are a few more terms to kick around.  If you have sources and
> alternate spellings please send them along.
>
> amber of grece, ambergris
>
> maslin
>
> long pepper
>
> quart -- "At the time the Paris quart was 1.86 litres, significantly
larger
> than the modern quart (Montagne, Zupko)." (Viandier)
> What other measurement terms do folks know of, and is there a table of
> medieval measurements and their modern equivalents?
>
> I know of
> http://www2.misnet.com/~jliferjr/hereare.htm 6 pages from the Gauger and
> Measurer's Companion, 1694, showing weights and measures
> and
>
http://classics.holycross.edu/Courses/IT_in_Classics/F97/exercises/04.Spread
shee
> ts.html A calculator for ancient weights and measures (using spreadsheets)
>
> Are there more?  Is there one site that puts all measurements together by
> time & place? Is there any non-mathematically-challenged person
interesting
> in tackling this project?
>
>
> Where is the page of Church holidays someone here did? (Caristiona?)
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Cindy
>
>
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