moggio

1

In Italy, southern France, the Levant, Turkey, a unit of dry capacity

19^th century according to Doursther (1840)
Locale		Capacity in liters
Corfu and Paxos, Greek islands		168.42 (Commercially, 5 Winchester bushels were accepted as a moggio.)
Ferrara	= 20 staje = 80 quarti = 160 quartini	625.88
Florence and Livorno	= 8 sacchi = 24 staji = 48 mine = 96 quarti = 384 metadelle = 768 mezzette = 1536 quartucci = 3072 bussoli	584.62
Grossetto in Toscany		553.20
Ithaca	= 5 bacili (1 bacili = 1 Winchester bushel)	176.18
Milan	= 8 staji = 16 starelli =32 quartari = 128 metà = 512 quartini	146.23
Padua	= 12 staje = 48 quartaruole	347.80
Venice	= 4 staji = 16 quarti = 64 quartaroli	333.25

[in Florence] Grano e altre biade vi si vendono a moggia che un moggio è staia ventiquattro rase e pesa lo staio lib. j once liiij

In Florence grain and other fodder is sold by the moggio, which is 24 stricken staia and weighs 1 libbra 54 oncia?????

Chiarini, 1481.

2

In Avignon, 14^th century, a unit of liquid capacity for wine, about @ liters.

Qui è grande carestia di vino d'ongni partte, perchè v'è pocho; valci il mogio di qui f.36 in f.38 d'oro coretti, che sono ij 1/3 boti di mena.

Here is a great dearth of wine from any location, because there is little, the value of a moggio is 36 to 38 gold florins coretti, which is for 2 1/3 botte di mena.

A Florentine writing in Avignon, 1391.
Archivio Datini. Cart Florence. As quoted in Edler, page 187.

3

In Mantua, ? – 19^th centuries, a unit of liquid capacity for oil, about 111.36 liters, weighing 101 kilograms.

Doursther (1840), page 235.

4

A unit of agricultural land area, a seed measure of land in concept based on the unit of dry capacity.

19^th century according to Doursther (1840)
Locale		Area in square meters
Alexandrie-de-la-Paille in the Piedmont		3142.43
Alexandrie-de-la-Paille in the Piedmont	grand moggio	4713.65
Casal in the Piedmont		3238.62
Ionian Islands		9673.63
Naples		3475.49