The Cold Table: measure

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Useful Sources for Medieval Cooking Measures

Robin Carroll-Mann recently reported on the SCA-cooks Yahoo list that the following sources on medieval weights and measures are available, in their entirety, on Google Books:

"Italian weights and measures from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth
century" By Ronald Edward Zupko
http://tinyurl.com/ykrd2ec

"A dictionary of weights and measures for the British Isles: the
Middle Ages ..." By Ronald Edward Zupko
http://tinyurl.com/y9o83ue

The URLs link to the Google Book location of each. I am reporting these by way of expanding access to this source of information.

EDIT: Note the comment by heroquester below. Zupko may be useful but may not be completely trustworthy.

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