[Sca-cooks] Drachma Weight

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Addemdum:

A message from Brighid/Robin Carroll-Mann
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/spice-mixes-msg.text
notes that in the Libro de Guisados it says:
>  And the weights of the spices in the apothecary shops are in this
>  manner: one pound is twelve ounces; one ounce, eight drachmas; one
>  drachma, three scruples: another way that you can more clearly
>  understand this: a drachma weights three dineros; a scruple is the
>  weight of one dinero; and a scruple is twenty grains of wheat.

How does this compare to Le Menagier, who is far away geographically 
and  about 130 years earlier?

Anahita
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