The Cairo nilometer
Subtitle: studies in Ibn Taghrî Birdî's chronicles of Egypt: I.
Series: University of California publications in Semitic philology,; v. 12
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Yūsuf ibn Taghrī-Birdī, 1411-1469?; Stream measurements -- Nile River.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 257-261.
"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."