The Cairo nilometer : studies in Ibn Taghrî Birdî's chronicles of Egypt: I /

The Cairo nilometer : studies in Ibn Taghrî Birdî's chronicles of Egypt: I /

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Main Author: Popper, William, 1874-1963 (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1951.

Series: University of California Publications in Semitic Philology ; 12.
UCPSP ; 12.

Subjects:

Ibn Taghrībirdī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf, > 1411-1470.
Stream measurements > Nile River.

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Call Number: PJ3002 .C3 v.12

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Item Description:"The study deals ... with the records of the rise [of the Nile] during the twelve and a half centuries from 641 to 1890 A.D. ... The chronicles of ... Ibn-Taghrî Birdî ... are the principal source of the statistics of the Nile for 641-1470 A.D."
Physical Description:xi, 269 pages : illustrations, map, diagrs., tables ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography : pages 257-261.