[Sca-cooks] 14th Century Food Imports
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Mon May 8 12:37:15 PDT 2006
La practica della mercatura by Francesco Balducci Pegolotti in the first
half of the 14th Century. A partial text is available at
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/pegol.html . A full version
of the manuscript text was published in 1936 under the titel La practica
dell mercatura edited by Allen Evans.
Pegolotti was a factor for the Florentine merchants Bardi. While he does
give instructions for a trip to Cathay, it is by the Steppes route to
Beijing rather than on the main silk road and it actually for the reign of
Kublia Khan rather than Kublia's successors, if I have all of the facts
right.
The goods mentioned are for everything entering the region of Constantinople
from all sources and not just that from the China trade.
Bear
> Source(s)???
>
> Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> In the early 14th Century, the following items were being bought and
> sold in
> the markets of Constantinople. The containers were usually considered tare
> to be subtracted from the gross weight of the sale. Bear
>
> SNIP
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