In Avignon, 14ᵗʰ century, a unit of mass used with grain, = 10 mine.
Per somate due grosse cioè xx mine di farina avemo da Charpentrato detto dì, tra primo chosto e rechatura insino messa in chasa, f.vij d'oro s.iiij.
For two somata grossa, that is to say, 20 mine of flour had from the abovementioned Charpentrato on that day, between down payment and delivery in the house ......7 gold florins 4 soldi.
Pratese in Avignon, 1368.
Archivio Datini. Registro. 142, as quoted in Edler,
page 273.
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