期刊名称：Portugália: Revista do Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da FLUP
印刷版ISSN：0871-4290
出版年度：2018
卷号：39
页码：217-252
语种：Portuguese
出版社：Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto (FLUP)
摘要：In the scope of an important charter reform, Manuel I of Portugal was particularly careful regarding weights, distributing bronze standards to a significant number of counties. The existence of these standards, which are in the form of nested cup weights (or piles) and are dated of 1499, is well known. However, there isn’t an exhaustive inventory of the extant standards and it remains largely unknown which counties actually acquired such standards. We begin by presenting a brief synthesis on the manueline reform of weights. The general characteristics of the manueline standards are identified and the chronology of their production is discussed. Based on literary sources, including the reports of the evaluations carried out in 1857-1860, and direct search in museums, it was possible to identify the existence of 128 manueline piles of weights and, for 73 of them, the counties to which they belonged. It was alsopossible to gather evaluations for 265 weight pieces from 42 piles. Based on these evaluations, an estimate of the manueline arratel was computed.
