styopa Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Just wondering if anyone has the link to the Universal Price List put out by j.m.davidson@ic.ac.uk? It's an 80+ page document exhaustively listing the prices of everything in a medieval-era world, from refined white flour (1 3/4d per lb) to clothes, to silverware, to a large wooden basket (3d). This is an OLD thing; I think they started it in 1982, my printed copy is from October 1996. But I cannot for the life of me find the file from which I printed it. Suddenly this much-abused clipped-together stack of old paper is precious! There are a lot of FRPG oldsters here, I'm hoping someone managed to save it, because extensive googling didn't find it. Not only didn't I get a reply to the email, I can't even find ANY reference to that email address! That's crazy. Edit: I did find several lists clearly derived from this ur-list, for example http://www.backgroundexposure.com/harn/eharnica/internet/Prices.pdf is for Harn and troublingly not credited (is is likely that two such lists would coincidentally have exactly the same prices and (for example) both have clothing prices for garments of linen, russet, buckram, and serge?). But I'd like to find (and ideally credit) the original. The above seems to also be mirrored in a more hypertexty way at http://theharniac.net/alienage/mercantyler_guild_lists.htm Edit2: I'm coming to believe that it's possible that this original generic 1982 list (they specifically say 'if people like this for Harn I'll adapt it') was in fact adapted into the 1984 edition of Harndex, but I don't have that to check. Much thanks for whatever anyone can find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill the barbarian Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 (edited) 24 minutes ago, styopa said: Just wondering if anyone has the link to the Universal Price List put out by j.m.davidson@ic.ac.uk? Just checked the Wayback machine, but no luck... Perhaps you have more data points and want to try it...(with the right data points and luck, almost anything is findable). https://archive.org Edited April 10, 2022 by Bill the barbarian Quote ... remember, with a TARDIS, one is never late for breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrvShane Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 4 hours ago, styopa said: Much thanks for whatever anyone can find. Is it this one? UPLS_4.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, styopa said: ... (is is likely that two such lists would coincidentally have exactly the same prices and (for example) both have clothing prices for garments of linen, russet, buckram, and serge?) ... But I'd like to find (and ideally credit) the original. fwiw, all these lists will be based upon research, and it seems entirely possible each list-compiler might have used the same source for clothing, resulting in identical list entries.But I've got no leads for you to follow; sorry! Scratch that.https://studylib.net/doc/9009995/introduction-to-universal-price-list-system Google search: "Universal Price List" "j.m.davidson@ic.ac.uk" (yes, I typed in the quotation marks) Edited April 10, 2022 by g33k added explicit search terms 1 Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styopa Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 Thanks very much everyone. I'd done the "quote" search as well, but no google fu for me. Anyway thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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