This post provides
more explicit references for data only summarized in Food
of the High Middle Ages.
The entries are organized by date and mainly provide links to the portion of each document containing the details cited. For the most part, these are in Latin in the originals and in my own translation here.
Lists of rations, rents, etc.
TENTH CENTURY
905 or 906
Codex diplomaticus Langobardiae, Volume 1
Ann. 905 or 906
An inventory of all the goods and their rents of the monastery of St. Julia of Brixensis (1).
From the inscription in Arch. s. Fidelis Mediol….
In the courtyard of Grilian there are 5 houses and 11 fireplaces; arable land for sowing 300 bushels, vineyards for 30 pots, meadows for carting... unfruitful land 1; The prebendaries below have 11 adult males, 11 females, 14 children, and there are at the same time…. 20 pigs, 9 goats, 8 geese, 20 chickens, 80 modii of wheat, 30 modii of rye, between barley and oats [1 modius]. 10 modii of legumes, 1 mill, which owes in the year 15 modii of grain, 28 remaining, absent lots 10 and 7, which owe 12 solidi of silver, 22 modii of grain, 13 sheep, 12 cheeses; 12 plowshares, 11 axes, 1 ax, 2 iron forks, and 100 pounds of other iron; country cloths 10, legumes 5 staria, chickens 11, eggs 60, packets of candles [?] 11 ; and the aforesaid, remaining in the year, 2,803 works. Of the benefice of Ader he has 2 missing lots, which return half wine and 16 denarii, 1 staria of grain and 1 staria of grain.
952
Therefore it pleased us to regulate in this way, that as much as is sufficient should be given to them, and that the bishops should not complain of more than is sufficient, and that they should not come with more than could be sufficient for them: in which the aforesaid bishops before us and our archbishop Hrabano agreed that it would be sufficient for the rest, as with for those acting in the synod, that is, to give to each church four pigs, each worth twelve denarii, or eight rams, which should be valued at the same sum as the four pigs, 44 piglets, 44 heifers, eight chickens, 20 buckets of mead, 20 of honeyed beer, 60 of unsweetened, 120 loaves of bread, 100 modii of oats, 600 sheafs, and let it be in the power of the bishop whether he wishes to have these for each church for one manor house or for two.
961
41. Bischof Udo von Straßburg schenkt den an der Kirche der heiligen
On the feast of St. John the Baptist they shall pay five solidi, on the feast of St. Adelphi Junus four deniers and 4 chickens, ten eggs, and also on the Lord's Nativity twelve loaves of bread one cubit long and one cubit wide and eight shoulders of mature young sheep and one bucket of beer and twenty-four heminas of oats, in the same manner twelve loaves of bread and eight fowls at the Lord's Passover.
988-1100
Nachrichten vom Zustande der Gegenden und Stadt Juvavia vor, während, und …
Of the Walawes the same service must be given with the exception. 1 pig and 1 young pig. and the same service is given to the son.
From Hemmingin must be given. 1 fattened pig, 3 young pigs. 2 weights of linen and 1 modius of beans and 4 of lupins and 1 of chickpeas and 1 cabbage [?] and half a measure of millet and 15 fowls and 4 ducks and 1 leather bag and 300 eggs.
Due from Papagnes. 3 fattened pigs, and 1 hog. and 3 young pigs, 12 weights of linen 3 modii legumes and 3 cabbage [?] 32 fowl and 5 ducks. and in three years 1 mattress and 1 bag and 1 piece of leather and 400 eggs
From the country 1 fattened pig. and 2 young pigs and 2 modii legumes and 10 fowl and 3 geese and 3 modii cabbage [?], After 6 years 1 mattress 300 eggs and 1 piece of leather, From Wehingen. 2 fattened pigs and 1 hog. and 3 young pigs and 3 modii legumes, and 3 cabbage [?] and 20 fowl and 4 ducks and after 4 years 1 mattress and 1 piece of leather and 300 eggs. This same service is due from the Greticha. From anava 1 fattened pig and 1 hog and 2 young pigs and 15 fowl, and 4 ducks and 2 modii legumes and 3 cabbages [?] and after 6 [?] years1 mattress, and 1 piece of leather. and 300 eggs 3 modii lupins.
From Masaheim 2 fattened pigs and 1 hog, and 2 young pigs. and 2 weights of linen and 2. modii legumes and 3 cabbages [?] and 3 [modii of?] lupins and 15 fowl and 4 hogs and 300 eggs and 1 Leather….
Around 1000
The medieval woman by Ennen, Edith
Fretherun not only dressed expensively, she also ate and drank well. To begin with, she received each year, apart from money and the fur clothing already mentioned, 12 hams, 20 measures of wheat and 30 urns of wine; a second contract provided the following annuity: 6 hams with offal and 6 without, 20 measures of wheat, 20 measures of other grain, 5 barrels of beer, a carrada of wine, 10 sheep with lambs and 5 without, 5 pigs, and money. The elevated pretensions of this lady are expressed in the fact that she ate white bread and drank wine. We can assume that it was Rhine wine which, in the Paderborn area, could be easily obtained from Cologne. The nun Atta’s annuity included 9 cheeses and 3 jugs of honey.
9th-10th century?
OstfriesischesUrkundenbuch, Volume 2
Liuppo 5 jars of honey and 6 victims [for sacrifice - ?] and one cow and 30 loaves of bread, fish, cheese and butter. Tio 4 victims, 1 jar of honey, fish, cheese (10), butter and one woolen cloak at the price of 6 shekels. Folkmar 5 victims and one cow, 30 loaves,...
fish, 20 cheeses and butter (and eggs), 6 bottles of wine, 15 bushels of beer, 10 bushels of oats and wood for burning. Of the advocacy in Pevishem 5 victims and 30 loaves, fish, cheese, butter and 5 bottles of wine and 12 bottles of beer and eggs. The same for Hredi.
....
. To the court and in the haribergi 1 libr. 80 pounds and 1 pound and 5 solidi.
the service of the lord abbot, the presbyter of Loge, will give in the third year 1 fattened cow, 6 sheep, 1 good pig and also 1 medium and 1 piglet, 10 chickens, 100 eggs, enough fish, a jar of honey, 1 jar of butter, one cartload of beer , (a bundle of linen, a bundle of wax, a bundle of pepper), 12 cheeses, 2 bushels of oats, 3 cartloads of hay, 16 bushels of rye in bread, 2 well-cleaned and 2 medium-sized measures, wood and salt as much as they need, for the servants 20 garments. He shall give to the abbot 1 cloth for making a cap and 24 garments.
10th century
Erkembaldi Episcopi Aregentinensis - Leges Municipales
Likewise, the burgrave shall receive the toll of oil, nuts, and apples from wherever they are brought and sold for money. But if they were sold for salt, or wine, or grain, or at any other price, the burgrave shall divide the toll with the toll-collector.
ELEVENTH CENTURY
1006
Oorkondenboek van het Sticht Utrecht tot 1301, Volume 1
These are the things pertaining to the service of the advocate in Ermelo: three times a year he must [keep the] plea, once with rations, twice with greens, for each service seven jugs of wine , three modii of beer, 2 bushels of rye, 8 deniers worth of wheat bread, 2 young sheep, 6 bushels of rations for fodder for the horses.
1015
99. A certain man named Alfdagus, forced by extreme poverty, whatever inheritance he had possessed in the march of Hodanhusun, with the will of his son Liudulf, gave it to the church on such terms that as long as they both lived, they would be supported by alms from the bishop; and the bishop, paying this piously, determined that it should be given to them every day bread, 2 pints of beer, half a cheese on the Sabbath, 2 meats [sic] on Sundays and other holidays, and every year 2 woolen cloths, one shekel of denarii.
1023
let them take two by two, four loaves, two wheat, two rye or oats, 10 meats, one cask of beer, one hemina full of mead, but the scholastics divide two and two, two loaves and four meats, and one hemina full of beer among themselves.
c. 1035-1040
...When David was told, he prepared the indominium and gave the census 30 loaves of bread every year at the festival of Simon and Jude and half a sexter of beans and a hemina of millet and 1 salmon fish, and if you cannot have it, 50 common dace [?] or as many eels and 2 donkey loads of wine;
1048
He set up a storehouse of one hundred solidi for the provision of fodder. For the provision of the utensils of the workshops, that is, the kitchens, bakeries, chambers, and granaries, he decided to give thirty solidi annually from the assessment of the courtyards; he gave tithes of the hay with which to feed his oxen; He established that he should be provided with shoes for the cowherd who would bring wood from the forest every day; he delegated the garden for vegetables, the cowshed with the cowherd. Having placed all these things under the care of the cellarer, he placed the table of the brothers under his care. And so two pounds of bread; legumes, peas or beans. For the purchase of a second stew [no first is mentioned; meaning the legumes?], eggs, cheese, or fish, eighteen deniers a day. From the first day of October until Septuagesima Sunday, a third stew of garden herbs, just two beers a day, a measure of wine for each of the four days of the week, with the Sabbath charity; biscuits of fine wheat in the twelve principal festivals. At lunchtime, he ordered the cakes and wafers to be served with other sweets for dinner.
1055
Henrici III, Germaniæ ac Italiæ regis, et imperatoris II, privilegium concessum Ferrariensi populo:
Generally let them observe the convention twice in the year, and pay this only for three days, and on each day three pigs and a hundred loaves of bread, one pound of pepper, and the other of cinnamon, and three pints of honey; and on these three days only one vessel of wine; but on the fourth day one bushel and fifty loaves give to the petitioner.
1063
He ordered his service to be named every year, namely, 12 [measures/loaves of?] fine flour, 120 loaves of second quality bread, 3 mature pigs, 2 piglets and 10 chickens, 100 eggs, 5 buckets of mead, 30 buckets of beer, 60 sheaves of straw, 6 bushels without straw, wax, and salt. and of utensils or vessels or the rest, which are in any way necessary for the service, as much as is sufficient for that expense.
1080-1082
Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Aubin à Angers
A man shall not pay a toll for what he carries on his neck, except for a feather, wax, ointment, beeswax, foreign and valuable things: for a feather, one penny; for a board or hard wax, one penny; for a beeswax, one penny worth of oil, one penny of bacon, one penny of unshod horse; for an ox, for a pig, for three sheep, for a penny, for a quarter of a sheep.
1091
Wirtembergisches urkundenbuch, Volume 2 -I. DAS SCHENKUNGSBUCH DES KLOSTERS REICHENBACH
And on the anniversary of this, a measure of grain is given by the almsman, which in our language is called malter, so that 30 loaves of bread are made from it, and from these 13 as many poor people are given a meal of meat, or fish, or eggs, or cheese, with a glass of wine also added; and after one denier shall be given to each of those poor men, and the rest shall be distributed to the poor with the usual bread and drink. each presbyter sings for us; a week ago, and the wine itself was on the day of his anniversary... ..... Now these are the things that each one will give. The prior shall give a measure of wine, measure of Speyer, and a malt and a half of grain, the steward one solidi, the chamberlain one, the cellarer one, the keeper of the church one, and the almsman one, besides 13 coins assigned to the poor. and Lord Abbot Bruno also decreed that whatever remained for the brothers in the refectory on the same day, according to custom, should be given to alms, and therefore the money should not be tithed. Each one will also give the aforesaid solidi to the cellarer 14 days before, and the wheat 7 days before, and the wine also on the same day, and the wheat from which 30 loaves of bread are prepared for the poor will be given from the brothers' granary.
TWELFTH CENTURY
1100
He should distribute 3 ounces to the poor, two for bread, one for cheese or some other stew and the remaining 12 ounces should be shared in common with the vicar's brothers in the refectory, two and two eating together, and after this to serve the ministers, 10 solidi for three young pigs and 20 chickens and 40 ewes, for each young pig 30 deniers and for 20 chickens 1 ounce, for pepper and eggs and vinegar 10 deniers, for flour 4 solidi, for wine 4 solidi, 20 for dishes and beakers, and further 2 solidi. If on Sunday or in the second or if it happens on the third or fifth day, four offerings are served, the first with salted meat, the second with cooked meat, the third with chickens, and the fourth with roasted meat. But if it is on a Wednesday or a Friday or a Sabbath, three offerings of fish are to be made.
1104
Oorkondenboek van het Sticht Utrecht tot 1301, Volume 1
From Boumela they must give one cheese and 2 deniers of wine. From Herewerde 2 they must give one good salmon. Those coming from Thiele 3 and from all the places belonging to it must give from each ship one good salmon for honor and 2 deniers of wine.
Those coming from the Passover, from Easter until autumn, must give one good salmon, from then until Easter 120 herrings and two denarii of wine. Coming from Taventry, from the beginning of Lent until Easter, they must give from each ship 120 herrings, from then until autumn 20 eels and 2 denarii of wine.
EX CONCILIO RATISPONENSI CUI INTERFUIT HEINRICUS III. IMPERATOR CUM MULTIS OPTIMATIBUS
The statute was established, that once a year, when it was ordered, all the lawyers should meet in certain places, and there they should not demand more for their service than two bushels of wheat, and two pigs, three casks of wine and mead, ten casks of ale. and five measures of oats
1114?
Guibert de Nogent: Histoire de sa vie (1053-1124) By Guibert (Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy)
On Sundays they receive food from the dispenser, namely bread and vegetables, because the only kind of stew is cooked by them.... And water, both for drinking and for residual use, flows from the pipe of the spring, which surrounds all the cells, and flows into each one through specific holes in the aedicus. They use fish and cheese on Sundays and on very festive days: fish, I would say, not which they bought for themselves, but which they received as a gift from some good men.
1120?
Beroldus sive ecclesiae Ambrosianae Mediolanensis kalendarium et ordines
On the same feast, all the priests, and the cardinal deacons, and all the subdeacons, and all the notaries, and the chief decumen,... the readers, and the four teachers of the schools, all these with each of the clerics, and all the readers with all the guards, all these eat with the abbot of the monastery where the festival is celebrated, the abbot gives 10 pounds of rye bread, and 1 quart of wine, but the master of the house must have two pints of wine on the same day, and keeps one for himself , he gives another meal to the 16 guards, and also gives them all the honors [?] in the secretary's office.
In s. For Luxor, 11 solidi per week, 15 barrels of wine for a reed[-wrapped?] goblet, 11 exchange loaves, 11 of wheat and 11 of rye, 1 pound of cheese, and 1 staria of wine for the keepers, 5 rye exchange loaves 11 pounds of cheese, and 1 staria wine
In s. Timothy, 11 solidi weekly wages, 12 denarii for the guards, 11 denarii for the cup, 11 denarii for the golden cross, 12 denarii for the veglonibus [a group of elderly deaconesses?].
In s. Alexander....
In the dedication of s. Radecundæ [St. Radegund?], weekly with two guardian subdeacons, 17 solidi, keepers 1111 exchange loaves, 11 of wheat and 11 of rye, and half of a fresh ram, 25 and 11 staria of wine, for the watchmen 5 rye exchange loaves, and half of a fresh ram and 11 staria of wine .
In s. Augustine, with subdeacons, two guardians, xvii solidi , for a cup one barrel of wine, for a golden cross pasturage, for the guards 11 exchange loaves, 11 of wheat and 1 of rye, 1 staria of wine and 1 pound of cheese, for the watchmen 5 rye exchange loaves, and 1 pound of cheese, and 1 staria of wine.
In the feast of the Decollation, for the weekly laborers, one barrel of wine for a reed[-wrapped?] cup, for a golden cross pasturage [or a feast?], for the guardians one mina of rye, the other of wheat, 1 pound of cheese, 11 staria of wine, 35 for the watchmen, 5 loaves of rye exchange bread, and 11 pounds of cheese, and 11 staria of wine.
1130-1140
Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Lézat. Série 8,Tome 2,Volume 18
Enough in bread and the best wine for the monks, and in mortar food [ground sauces?], and in flans, and in fish; At dinner, in the same way, bread should be given to those who do not have enough..
1142
Annales Ordinis S. Benedicti Occidentalium Monachorum Patriarchae ..., Volume 6
His diet was only beans and chestnuts with barley bread
1149
Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae
An abbot of Milan wanting to reduce the tables of his canons, the latter brought an action against him, insisting that he should cause nine dishes to be served to them in three courses, The first, cold fowls, gambas de vino [marinated meat?], and cold pork: the second, stuffed fowls, beef with a pepper-sauce, and small pies of Lavezolo: the third, roasted chickens, breaded loins, and stuffed pigs..
1150
Urkundenbuch des Hochstifts Halberstadt und seiner Bischöfe: Bis 1236, Volume 1
let them be prepared in the common refectory from five and a sixth dishes of an obol’s worth, of beer, mead, and wine, the expense for the poor 3 solidi in bread only, a candle of 4 coins... have and let the expense be of 4 solidi, as for other things, On the 15th day of March for his lord Frederic and a candle of 33 coins, from the rest the brothers should be fed in the refectory with three dishes, roast salmon, pike, beer and wine on Laetare Sunday…
1160
On the first day he will give 5 bushels of rye bread, 5 rams, each weighing 3 ounces, two pigs, each weighing 6 ounces, 1 pig weighing 2 ounces, 1 cow weighing 10 ounces, a cartload of beer, 10 cheeses, 10 hens, 100 eggs, a quart of butter, half a ham, a bushel of pepper..
1154-1189
Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, Volume 1
At the beginning of the fast, the fishermen who bring eels to the kitchen will have bread from the hall. And these are the fisheries that provide the eels. ...
Before the anniversary day of the abbot of Walchelin, the cook must fish from the vivarium of Leuechenora.
1156
Histoire générale de Languedoc: avec des notes et les pièces ..., Volume 4
I, Raymond Trencavel, sheriff of Béziers, by myself and by all my men, pledge in good faith ... in the town of Béziers, and all the tolls that I have there, that is to say, of leeks, and cabbage, and onions, and garlic, and of horseradish [?], and of straws for festivals, and all the very usual things that I have in Judea for the festival, of the honey, cinnamon, and pepper…
Rudolph of St. Trond - Gesta abbatum Trudonensium
4. Therefore, desiring to excavate more diligently the established prebend of the brethren until the desolation of the place on account of the contentions of the abbots and on account of the many varieties of wars, let us begin thus: The daily bread of the brethren is weighed 5 marks in weight of Cologne, fair and white, chiefly of wheat and of the finest flour ; 4 marks of bread for boys, but of the same quality; a portion of 36 beers for each of the brothers, beers such as none of the other monks drank normally, between lunch and dinner a pint of wine; on Sunday and on the third and Thursday between three brothers a pint of wine, on the Sabbath by order between four. But when the customs of the Cluniacs came to us, who carry out their command with great sobriety, we took a sixth part of a pint of wine at dinner, and fulfilled the command of the Cluniacs according to the rest of the custom. But wine was never given to the young brothers, unless it was specifically given to them by the abbot or prior, and then also more sparingly. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, if such a festival took place, at any rate a pint of wine was given between the three brothers. The brothers also had legumes every day, on the days on which the refined fat was eaten. In the same way, they surrounded me every day from the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for three weeks. When beef was eaten, the vegetables were richly seasoned with the fat of the meat;
5. The prefect of Hasbania, as long as another was serving, gave dinner every night, that is, four eggs and a half of cheese, or apples, or some other fruit. And that must not be forgotten, because if fasting days occurred during these days, or during the whole year, the priest of the supper did not deduct from the debt of the supper, but gave to the brethren at lunch what he could eat on that day. But from the feast of St. Remy until the Octave of Pentecost at all the feasts at which the brothers were in white, the prefect of Hasbania exchanged for a dish of vegetables gravy made of wine, eggs, and fat, and he gave each of the brothers a good portion of fresh fish, and at the same time three pastries, which according to the ancient law, they must contain five eggs and cheese, and for this reason a portion was never taken away from the Teisterbant. On the night of the festival of St. Remy and St. Trudon, the same priest gave the brothers fresh fish from the Meuse for dinner, and the brothers themselves had the same dinner among four pints of wine, even if it should happen to them that they themselves have it for lunch between three days. On the feast day of St. Remy and on the day of the feast day of St. Trudon, daily bread was given to the brothers between two men weighing four marks. And the first dish on the table was what may be called carpeia, of dried fish of the Tiesterbant, which was taken in small pieces, and chopped up with eggs and pepper sprinkled over each portion.
BOOK XIII CONTINUATION I. In the second dish, the same as for the prefect of Hasbania of fresh salmon, boiled in water and peppered; a third dish of the same kind, roasted and in no way peppered; between it and other fish that were brought from the Meuse, whom we may with poetic license call roceas and bards; moreover, between two and two brothers a pittance, partly of stuffed lampreys, partly of the backs of salmon and their eggs peppered; after pastries. What more? There was an abundance of many fish. And when thus during the intervals of the festivals I served with the prefect of Teisterbant the prefect of Hasbania, yet at all times he procured for the little brothers four eggs for the feast (449) and four for dinner and meat for the infirmaries (450), if they were still in the court or in the larder, he took from there the amount it was expedient. From the Octave of Pentecost until the festival of St. Remy, the prefect of Teisterbant ceased and served the Hasbanian every day.
From the Octave of Pentecost before that place, pastries. The bread which was given to the abbot's cell, who feasted in it, and to the servants of the court, and to all the guests who came, was received from the common in the cellar of the brothers; likewise beer and wine by the hand of the steward who was above the court. The marshal distributed fodder for the horses from the barn of the granary, both to the household and to the guests, for the cellarer of the brothers received and dispensed only that which belonged to the brothers. Of the rations, beer, and wine, the abbot had nothing in particular beyond the census of certain towns, churches, and mills. About him he arranged for his table in the cell and for those who followed him and for his guests, both small and great, and three services in the year of the bishop of Metensi, the redemption of which was six marks, and those which pertained to the maintenance of the buildings of the cloister.
1160
Oorkondenboek van Groningen en Drente, Volume 1
The vicar of the lord abbot in Grůningen will give assigned service in the third year. He will serve for 6 days. On the first day he will give 5 bushels of rye bread, 5 rams, each worth 3 ounces, two pigs, each worth 6 ounces, 1 pig worth 2 ounces, 1 cow worth 10 ounces, a cartload of beer, 10 cheeses, 10 hens, 100 eggs, a quarter butter, half a ham, a bushel of pepper, a bunch of flax, a talent of wax, 10 bushels of oats; to the lord of the abbot and his chaplains, enough fish, enough grass, for alms, 5 shillings. On the second day only, except for the cow. On the third day only the cow. On the fourth day only except the cow. On the fifth day only and on the sixth day only except the cow. Redemption of this service at the pleasure of the senior a cow let him look back.
The service of the priest of Winzhem, which he will give to the abbot in the 3rd year: 5 bushels of rye bread, a bushel of wheat, 5 rams, 2 pigs, 1 piglet, 1 cow, 10 cheeses, 10 chickens, 100 eggs, a jug of butter, 3 jugs of wine, a cart beer, a talent of wax, a barrel of pepper, a bundle of flax, 10 bushels of Gruningen oats, 2 cartloads of grass, wood with springs, 5 shillings for alms. Enough fish for the Lord Abbot and his chaplains; He must keep all the horses of the abbot in the meadows night and day; he must also give a good cloth annually to the abbot for a cap.
The Cleric of Grůnevurht shall serve the Lord Abbot in like manner in the 3rd year, except for the cap. The redemption of this service is at the request of the senior.
These are the ones that the mayor of Gruningen will give to the abbot's lawyer and messengers. On the feast of St. Otgeri one talent. Two of the three lari (they lie on the other side of the river Hateia, next to the chimney of Rudolph) 6 solidi. 28 ounces over Bedderewalde and Stederewalde. He will give him 7 rams from the forest.
For the service of the abbot and his messengers as they enter Frisia at the appointed time: In Lon 5 solids of Daventry money (and a cartload of grass).) In Dalon 13 modios of rye, 13 modios of bracc. [malt?] (hord [barley?]), 65) 5 solidos. In Grůnlo 30 denarii. In Slene 5 shillings (30 bushels of rye). 65) In Arlon 6 bushels of rye, 8 bushels of malt. In Glemmen 4 bushels of rye, 4 bushels of malt. In Bederewaldmanna,) whose names are these: Sneinteild, Folcmar, Meinhard, Thidbrand, Wigo, Brunde, Eilward, Adalbrud, Meinhard will give 2 tons and two ounces, 7 rams worth 3 ounces each, 7 cheeses worth 6 pence each. In Bederewalde Benteid 2 ounces and a half. In Winzheim half a talent for the abbot's ship. In Roton 4 tons and 12 cloths…..
1183
Chartes de Dubon ... diocèse de Gap
So that during the Purification of the Blessed Mary, in order to procure the refectory of the aforesaid house, he should lend fresh bread from two sextari of cleaned wheat and a mina of chickpeas and 2 hemina of pure and best wine, and a spiced drink [piment] in which he should have three hemina of pure wine and an ounce and a half of clove, and of honey and oil, as much as was necessary..
1196
MartyriumArnoldi archiepiscopi Moguntini und andere Geschichtsquelen
Again we inform you that there is a royal service in Saxony. There are thirty large pigs, three cows, five suckling pigs, fifty hens, fifty eggs, ninety cheeses, ten geese, five cartloads of beer, five pounds of pepper, ten pounds of wax, wine from his cellar everywhere Saxonic…..
...Likewise [these] are the courts of France. They only give: forty pigs, seven suckling pigs, fifty hens, five cows, five hundred eggs, ten geese, five pounds of pepper, ninety cheeses, ten pounds of wax, four cartloads of large [great?] wine.
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