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

: "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." : xi, 269 pages : illustrations, map, diagrs., tables ; 26 cm. : Bibliography : pages 257-261.