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botte

1 [Italian]

A unit of liquid capacity, mostly used for wine. Also spelled botta. The Italian form of the butt or pipe.

Locale		Equivalents	Liters	Sources
Cagliari	botte di pente		500	B
	botte di quartane 10	= 10 quartare	44.84	M
Catanzaro	for oil; botte di rotoli	weighs 454²⁄₃ rotoli, = 44 staia di rotoli	443.57	M
S. Felice		= 12 barili of Naples or 1000 foglietta	523.4954	B130
Girgenti		= 60 lancelle	550.18	M
	for mosto	= 600 quartucci	514.008	B172
	for wine	= 560 quartucci	479.7408	B172
Mantua		= 8 sogli	874.91	M
Marsala	for mosto	= 18 barili	464.21	M
	for wine	= 16 barili	412.63	M
Messina	for mosto	= 6 salme = 12 barili = 48 quartare = 816 quartucci	513.28, 511.5777	M, B174
	for wine	= 6 salme = 12 barili = 48 quartare = 768 quartucci	483.08, 481.4114	M, B174
Milazzo	for mosto	= 6 salme	521.5306	B176
	for wine	= 6 salme	481.113	B176
Naples	botte di mena	by the edict of 6 April 1480 and the law of 6 April 1840, = 12 barili = 720 caraffi; the volume of a cylinder three palmi in diameter and four palmi high	523.500, 523.4594	K, Afan di Rivera,B178
Palermo	after 1809	= 4 salme = 32 barili = 64 quartare = 320 quartucci = 640 caraffa = 1280 bicchieri; = 64 cubic palmi	1100.36	M
	before 1809; botte di consuetudine	= 12 barili = 480 quartucci	412.63, 411.2064	M, B182
Rome		= 16 barili	933.5	K, M
Sardinia
Sicily	after 1809	1 cubic canna; = 4 salme	1100.3555	B186
Trapani	for mosto	= 46 barili = ~ 628.67 quartucci	540.63	M
	for wine	= 12 barili = 48 quartare = 480 quartucci	412.63	M
Treviso		= 10 conzi = 60 secchi = 480 boccale =960 boccie = 3840 gotto	779.80	M
Venice	botte d'anfora	= 5 biconcia = 10 mastelli = 60 secchi = 240 bozze;	648	K, M
		= 10 mastelli = 70 secchie = 280 bozze or boccale = 1120 quartucci = 4480 gotti	751.17
	botte
Vicenza		= 8 mastelli = 96 secchi = 960 bozze = 3840 gotto	911.12	M

Source code key for table
K Kelly, 1821.
B Bofondi, 1855.
M Martini, 1883.

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Vino si vende per tucta l'isola [Sicily], cioè alla marina, a bocte, e bocte una torna in Vinegia bighonce tre.

Wine is sold throughout the island, that is to say, along the coast, by the botte, and one botte comes to three Venetian biconcia.

Chiarini, 1481.

El tonello del vino di Bruggia è octantocto rasche e ogni rascha è quattro bocte, fa in Firenze cogna uno e quattordici quindecimi.

The tonello of wine in Bruge is 88 rasch and each rasch is 4 botte, making 1 14/15 Florentine cogna.

Chiarini, 1481.

In Naples, it was used both for oil and wine, and called the botte di mena.

Una bocte di mena [in Naples] torna in Firenze cogno uno.

One Neapolitan botte di mena is one Florentine cogno.

Chiarini, 1481.

A Butte of oile or wine of Pulia hold heere twelve barrels, which have beene found to make in Florence 10. barrels, and is in England (   ) [sic] gallons.

Roberts, 1639. Apulia, Chapter CXLI, page 55.

2 [Italian]

In Apulia, Montpellier, Constantinople, a unit of liquid capacity used for oil. In Apulia it was known as the botte di mezzo migliaio, “butt of half a thousand”.

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1

La botte di mezzo migliaio di Puglia è saine 57 [of oil in Constantinople], e la botte di mena di Napoli dee tenere saine 76 [of oil].

The botte di mezzo migiaio of Apulia is 58 saina [of oil in Constantinople], and the botte di mena of Naples must contain 76 saina.

Pegolotti, 1340.

2

Bocte una d'olio di Mompolieri fa in Firenze orcia 13 e mezo.

One botte of oil in Montpellier is the equivalent of 13½ Florentine orcia.

Chiarini, 1481.

3

Quasi tutto [of the oil] si vende a botte [in Constantinople] spezialmente chi vende in grosso, ma chi vende a minuto vende a saine a pregio di tanti kar. la saina.

Almost all [of the oil sold in Constantinople] is sold by the botte, especially oil sold wholesale, but that sold in small quantities is sold by the saina at so many ?kar? per saina.

Pegolotti, 1340.

3 [Danish]

A unit of mass used for butter, = 8 skaalpund = 16 marks, about 3.96 kilograms.

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