Rapport sur les poids et mesures : fait à la Société royale académique de Savoie dans sa séance du 22 décembre 1828

Name:

Société royale académique de Savoie; Raymond, George-Marie, 1769-1839

Date:

1828

Description:

Excerpt from the register of the deliberations of the Société royale académique de Savoie, most of which is a report from a commission named to investigate the standardization of weights and measures. The report recommends the adoption of specific decimal liquid measures such as liters and the pegging of retained national measures, such as the pied for land area and the grenette de Chambéry for grain volume, to specific percentages of international decimal measures. Information at the end identifies the report as an excerpt, records that the report was unanimously adopted, and is signed by G. M. Raymond, secrétaire perpétuel de la Société (f. 12r).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 48.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Stanitz, John D., former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs217.html

Subject:

Weights and measures -- France -- History; Metric system -- History; Metric system; History; Weights and measures

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); reports; Manuscripts, French

Physical Description:

14 leaves : paper; 288 x 196 (246 x 97) mm

Geographic Subject:

France

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. gathering.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Collation: Paper, 1¹⁴.; Layout: Written in 1 column of 29 lines on the right half of each page (left half used on one page for the rewriting of a canceled section); ruled in lead; left margin of text column marked both with lead and by folding.; Script: Written in cursive script.; Watermarks: BONTOUX, BEROUD.; Binding: Gathering sewn with silk ribbon, no covers.; Origin: Written in Chambéry in 1828 (f. 12r).; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 217

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)