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moggio

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

19ᵗʰ century according to Doursther (1840)
Locale	Equivalents	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

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[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 the staio weighs 1 libbra 5 oncia.

Chiarini, 1481.

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In Avignon, 14ᵗʰ century, a unit of liquid capacity for wine, about 1000 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.

Chiarini (1481) said the botte di mina of Naples (see botte) was the same size as the Florentine cogno, 455 liters. Taking the 14ᵗʰ century botte di mena as 455 liters makes the moggio in Avignon 1061 liters.

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In Mantua, ? – 19ᵗʰ 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.

19ᵗʰ 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
Casale in the Piedmont		3238.62
Ionian Islands		9673.63
Naples		3475.49