Conversion tables.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Tables for changing the values of units, typically of measure or weight, into equivalents in different systems of measure.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Early 15th-century manuscript containing short prayers, followed by conversion tables for calculating the price of merchandise.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.6
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Scotland, primarily for the use of converting the prices of commodities between Scotland and the Low Countries. The commodities listed include wool, skins, hides, cloth, canvas, iron, wax and wine. The monetary units used are a mixture of Flemish and English money. The volume also contains a small portion of religious material. Hanham believes that the commercial part of the volume is likely to be a copy of a work which was possibly originally composed in...
Dates:
Early 15th century.
Household and medical recipes, lists of flowers and fruit-trees and other gardening notes, a list of fish in Loch Fyne, and conversion-tables for Scottish and English weights and measures., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17889
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript containing short prayers, followed by conversion tables for calculating the price of merchandise.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1108
Dates:
Early 15th century.