| the | 1st | = | 12 | nummi = 1 bes. |
| " | 2nd | = | 6 | " |
| " | 3rd | = | 3 | " |
| " | 4th | = | 2 | " |
| " | 5th | = | 1 | " = 24 units of 4 siliquae each. |
| " | 6th | = | 12 | units of 4 siliquae each. |
| " | 7th | = | 6 | " " |
| " | 8th | = | 3 | " " |
| " | 9th | = | 2 | " " |
| " | 10th | = | 1 | " " |
And so with them, just as with our own people, the mark is divided into two hundred and eighty-eight grenlins, and by the people of Nuremberg it is divided into two hundred and fifty-six pfennige. Lastly, the Venetians divide the bes into eight unciae. The uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae. They make twelve weights, which they use whenever they wish to assay alloys of silver and copper. Of these
| the | 1st | = | 8 | unciae = 1 bes. |
| " | 2nd | = | 4 | " |
| " | 3rd | = | 2 | " |
| " | 4th | = | 1 | " or 4 sicilici. |
| " | 5th | = | 2 | sicilici. |
| " | 6th | = | 1 | sicilicus. |
| " | 7th | = | 18 | siliquae. |
| " | 8th | = | 9 | " |
| " | 9th | = | 6 | " |
| " | 10th | = | 3 | " |
| " | 11th | = | 2 | " |
| " | 12th | = | 1 | " |
Since the Venetians divide the bes into eleven hundred and fifty-two siliquae, or two hundred and eighty-eight units of 4 siliquae each, into which number our people also divide the bes, they thus make the same number of siliquae, and both agree, even though the Venetians divide the bes into smaller divisions.
This, then, is the system of weights, both of the greater and the lesser kinds, which metallurgists employ, and likewise the system of the lesser weights which coiners and merchants employ, when they are assaying metals and coined money. The bes of the larger weight with which they provide themselves when they weigh large masses of these things, I have explained in my work De Mensuris et Ponderibus, and in another book, De Precio Metallorum et Monetis.
Whatsoever small amount of metal is obtained from a centumpondium of the lesser weights of ore or metal alloy, the same greater weight of metal is smelted from a centumpondium of the greater weight of ore or metal alloy.
END OF BOOK VII.