Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress

by H. W. L. Hime

[212] Boha ed-Din, ib.

[213] T. Gale, Hist. Anglicani Scriptores, Oxford, 1687, ii. 327.

[214] Paris ed., 1668, p. 39 ff.

[215] ii. 7. Milton uses the phrase, nitrati pulveris igne, in his juvenile Latin poem, “In Quintum Novembris,” l. 120.

[216] See p. 17. He was a Spanish Arab, born near Malaga.

[217] Reinaud and Favé, p. 66 n. If this Arab is identical with Shaykhun al-Omari, the Egyptian grand amir, he died in 758 A.H. (1356 A.D.). Sacy’s Chrest. Arabe, i. 272.

[218] Jähns, p. 775.

[219] See “Cannon at Cressy,” by the present writer, Proceed. R. A. Inst., vol. xxvi.

[220] وعمل الحركة الى مدينة بسطة فاخذ فى حلفها ونشر الحرب عليها ورمى بالالة العظمى المتحدة بالنفط كرة محماة طاقة البرج المنيع—Bib. Arab. Hispan., ii. 7.

[221] “Ille castra movens, multo milite, hostium urbem Baza obsedit, ubi machinam illam maximam naphta et globo instructam, admoto igne, in munitam arcem cum strepitu explosit.”—Ib.