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The moving planets in the news of Egypt and Cairo “The old days, the history of the old days and the new life”, by Shams al-Dîn Moḥammad ibn Abî ʾl-Soroûr al-Bakrî al-Ṣiddîqî (descendant of the first caliber, Aboû Bakr al-Ṣiddîq)
(الكواكب السائرة فى اخبار مصر و القاهرة )

Title	The moving planets in the news of Egypt and Cairo “The old days, the history of the old days and the new life”, by Shams al-Dîn Moḥammad ibn Abî ʾl-Soroûr al-Bakrî al-Ṣiddîqî (descendant of the first caliber, Aboû Bakr al-Ṣiddîq)
Title Original	الكواكب السائرة فى اخبار مصر و القاهرة
Author	MuḤAMMAD ibn Muḥammad ibn abī al-Sorūr al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī (Šams al-Dīn). Auteur du texte
Publication Date:	1645
Subject	History of Egypt, History of Egypt
Type	Other
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	University of La Laguna Library
Record ID	cdi_europeana_collections_9200519_ark_12148_btv1b110010884
Date	1645
Notes	Scanning from a substitute document. It is a topographical description of Egypt, accompanied by a history of this country. The historical part begins with the mention of the kings who reigned in Egypt before the flood, and ends in the year 1063 AH. The work is divided into twenty chapters, the list of which is placed at the end of the preface. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى فضل بعض البقاع على بعض و زادها شرفا و تبجيلا. M. de Sacy gave an analysis of this work in the first volume of Notices and Extracts, p. 165 et seq. (The surnames البكرى الصدّيقى are explained by “descendant of Moḥammad Baker (الباقر) and Djafar Sadik”.) Ms. dated from the year 1055 AH (1645 A.D.), but corrected a few years later by the same copyist (see fol. 74 and 89 v°). Scanning from a substitute document. Scanning from a substitute document. It is a topographical description of Egypt, accompanied by a history of this country. The historical part begins with the mention of the kings who reigned in Egypt before the flood, and ends in the year 1063 AH. The work is divided into twenty chapters, the list of which is placed at the end of the preface. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى فضل بعض البقاع على بعض و زادها شرفا و تبجيلا. M. de Sacy gave an analysis of this work in the first volume of Notices and Extracts, p. 165 et seq. (The surnames البكرى الصدّيقى are explained by “descendant of Moḥammad Baker (الباقر) and Djafar Sadik”.) Ms. dated from the year 1055 AH (1645 A.D.), but corrected a few years later by the same copyist (see fol. 74 and 89 v°).

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The moving planets in the news of Egypt and Cairo “The old days, the history of the old days and the new life”, by Shams al-Dîn Moḥammad ibn Abî ʾl-Soroûr al-Bakrî al-Ṣiddîqî (descendant of the first caliber, Aboû Bakr al-Ṣiddîq)

(الكواكب السائرة فى اخبار مصر و القاهرة )

Author MuḤAMMAD ibn Muḥammad ibn abī al-Sorūr al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī (Šams al-Dīn). Auteur du texte

Publication Date 1645

Subject History of Egypt, History of Egypt

Type Other

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library University of La Laguna Library

Record ID cdi_europeana_collections_9200519_ark_12148_btv1b110010884

Date 1645

Notes Scanning from a substitute document. It is a topographical description of Egypt, accompanied by a history of this country. The historical part begins with the mention of the kings who reigned in Egypt before the flood, and ends in the year 1063 AH. The work is divided into twenty chapters, the list of which is placed at the end of the preface. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى فضل بعض البقاع على بعض و زادها شرفا و تبجيلا. M. de Sacy gave an analysis of this work in the first volume of Notices and Extracts, p. 165 et seq. (The surnames البكرى الصدّيقى are explained by “descendant of Moḥammad Baker (الباقر) and Djafar Sadik”.) Ms. dated from the year 1055 AH (1645 A.D.), but corrected a few years later by the same copyist (see fol. 74 and 89 v°). Scanning from a substitute document. Scanning from a substitute document. It is a topographical description of Egypt, accompanied by a history of this country. The historical part begins with the mention of the kings who reigned in Egypt before the flood, and ends in the year 1063 AH. The work is divided into twenty chapters, the list of which is placed at the end of the preface. Beginning: الحمد لله الذى فضل بعض البقاع على بعض و زادها شرفا و تبجيلا. M. de Sacy gave an analysis of this work in the first volume of Notices and Extracts, p. 165 et seq. (The surnames البكرى الصدّيقى are explained by “descendant of Moḥammad Baker (الباقر) and Djafar Sadik”.) Ms. dated from the year 1055 AH (1645 A.D.), but corrected a few years later by the same copyist (see fol. 74 and 89 v°).