HAMZA BIN 'ALI BIN AL-BATINI AL-DRUZI: KITAB AL-HAQA'IQ WA KASHF AL-MAHJUB

LEVANT, 15TH CENTURY

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HAMZA BIN 'ALI BIN AL-BATINI AL-DRUZI: KITAB AL-HAQA'IQ WA KASHF AL-MAHJUB
LEVANT, 15TH CENTURY
A treatise on rhetoric against Christians composed by a Druze author, Arabic manuscript on paper, 129ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script, important words picked out in red, with red roundel markers, titles in larger red naskh script, some catchwords, with later added notes, in 14th or 15th century restored brown morocco binding with flap
Folio 7¼ x 5¼in. (18.6 x 13.3cm.)

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This work might be the same work as al-Risala al-Damigha of which two copies are in the British Library although their author is unknown. A certain Hamza bin 'Ali is the author of a work titled Kashf al-haqa'iq also in the British Library. It is unsure however if this is the same work (C. Baker, Subject Guide to the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Library, London, 2001, p. 399).

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