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The Cairo nilometer; studies in Ibn Taghrî Birdî's chronicles of Egypt: I.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Popper, William, 1874-1963.
- Series:
- University of California publications in Semitic philology ; v. 12.
- University of California publications in Semitic philology, v. 12.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ibn Taghrībirdī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf, 1411-1470.
- Ibn Taghrībirdī, Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf.
- Stream measurements--Nile River.
- Stream measurements.
- Nile River.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1951.
- Notes:
- "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."
- Bibliography: pages 257-261.
- OCLC:
- 3234848
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