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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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Citation Information
590 MARCO POLO APP. K.
VIGNE, G. T. Travels in Kas/unir, London, 1842.
VIN. BELL., VINC. BELLOV. Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Historiale, Sy5ecululn Naturale, &c.
VISDELOU. Supplément to D'Herbelot. 1780.
WILLIAMS'S Middle Kingdom. 3rd. Ed. New York and London, 1857. WILLIAMSON, Rev. A. Journeys in N. China, Vic. London, 187o.
\VIBER'S Metrical Romances of the XIIIth, Xl Vth, and X Vila Centuries. Edinburgh, 181o.
WITSEN. Noord en Oost Tartaryen. 2nd Ed. Amsterdam, 1785.
APPENDIX K. Values of certain Moneys, Weights, and Measures, occurring in this Book.
FRENCH MONEY.
The Livre Tournois of the period may be taken, on the mean of five valuations cited in a footnote at p. 87 of vol. i., as equal
in modern silver value to . . i 8 •o4 francs.
Say English money ▪ . t 4s. 3.8d.
The Livre Parisis was worth one-fourth more than the Tour-
nois,* and therefore equivalent in silver value to . • . 22.55 francs.
Say English money . • 7s. io•8d.
(Gold being then to silver in relative value about 12 : I instead of about 15 : ~ as now, one-fourth has to be added to the values based on silver in equations with the gold coin of the period, and one-fifth to be deducted in values based on gold value. By oversight, in vol. i. p. 87, I took 16 : 1 as the present gold value, and so exaggerated the value of the livre Tournois as compared with gold.)
M. Natalis de Wailly, in his recent fine edition of Joinville, deter-
mines the valuation of these livres, in the reign of St. Lewis, by taking
a mean between a value calculated on the present value of silver,
and a value calculated on the present value of gold,t and his result is :
Livre Tournois
Livre Parisis
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. 20.26 francs.
25.33 >>
Though there is something arbitrary in this mode of valuation, it is, perhaps, on the whole the best ; and its result is extremely handy for the memory (as somebody has pointed out) for we thus have
One Livre Tournois = One Napoleon.
„ Parisis = One Sovereign.
See (Du6ré de St. Maur) Essai sur les Monnoies, &c. Paris, 1746, p. xv ; and Douet d'Arcq,
pp. 5, 15, &C.
t He takes the silver value of the gros Tournois (the sol of the system) at 0.8924 fr., whence the
Livre =17'849 fr. And the gold value of the golden Agnel, which passed for sols Tournois, is
14.1743ír. Whence the Livre=22.6789fr. Mean=2o•2639fr.
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