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comprobârunt b. Tychsenius (f), quamquam scrupulum aliquem.in 
ejus etiam animo subnatum esse videmus (°), $S. de Sacy, qui ex 
- Makrisyo concludi posse, ipsam urbem Baghdadum etiam nomine 
D Muhammediæ appellatam fuisse, existimabat (5), b. Conde (*), Mœl- 
ler (5), äl! Jaall (6), Hallenberg (9), Castiglioni, qui sententiam 
illam etiam corroborare studuit ($), et Schiepati (?). 
Novissime tandem Marsden de sententià illà vulgari dubita- 
tionem movit, quamquam non sustulit. Binos ejusdem anni numos 
Mechdyanos, quorum alterum in Medinet - el- Salam, alterum in Mu- 
‘hammedià cusum autumat, tanquam testes locupletissimos contra il- 
lam opinionem excitat, indeque Mu‘hammediam alibi quam in ipsä 
urbe Baghdad, quamvis fortasse non adeo procul ab eà, quærendam 
censet. (1°) Equidem, etsi neutiquam in animo habeo superiorem 
2 
(1) Introduet. p. 34. 
(2) Additament. p.24. cf. idem ad A1-Makrizi Hist. Mon. Arab. p. 98. 
(3) v. Traité des monnoies Musulm. trad. de l'Arabe de Makrizi p. 30. — S. de 
Sacyi maxime auctoritate motum esse puto beatum etiam Rühs, ut Mu‘hamme- 
diam , tanquam unum de nominibus Baghdadi, sine ullà dubitatione poneret in 
Handbuch der Geschichte des Mittelalters p. 176. 
(4) v. Memorias de la R. Academia. de lu Historia T. V, p.238, ubi et ipse h. d.S, 
de Sacyi auctoritatem sequutus ,, En tiempo, inquit, del augusto de los arabes 
> Harun el Raxid se acuñaron (monedas) en Bagdad, conocida entonces con el 
» nombre de Muhammedia y de Medinat - essalam.‘ 
(5) De numis Orient. in Numophyl. Goth. asservat. Com. I, p.24. 
(6) Beitrige zur Muh. Münzkunde aus St, Petersburg p.8. 
(7) Numismata OO. P. I, p-. 54. 
(8) Moncte Cufiche del! J, R. Museo di Milano p: 19. 
(2) Descrizione di alcune monete Cuf. del Museo Mainoni p. 37: 
@°), v. Numismata Orientalia illustrata, by Marsden T.I, p. 38: ,, A difference of 
opinion (inquit) prevails with respect to the place to which the name of Mu- 
hammediah belonged. ‘The most common supposition attributes it to a particu- 
lar division or suburb of the great city of Baghdad; but the coincidence of date 
between this and the coin last’ described, affords a presumption of the contra- 
