b'1721391BOOKS & EPHEMERA 1393CHINESE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT.1391 A rare antique Chinese Quran manuscript leaf [MEDICINE, SCIENCE & RELIGION] written in the Chinese Arabic Sini script.BROWNE, Thomas (1605 - 1682) One loose folio with recto, 18th century.The Works Of the Learned Sr. Thomas Brown, Kt. 16.2 x 12cm.[London, Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, et al., 1686], Note: Sini is a calligraphic style used in China for Arabic script 1st edition; original boards, replaced spine & end papers.and can be distinguished by its roundness of form, with Engraved portrait. no embellishments other than the sura headings and ruled The Works Of the Learned Sr. Thomas Brown, Kt, Doctor ofmargins.The style is bold and is used mostly in mosques in Physick, late of Norwich. Eastern China and to a lesser extent in Gansu, Ningxia and Containing I. Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. Shaanxi.II. Religio Medici: With Annotations and Observatioons upon it. PROVENANCEIII. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: Private collection, Melbourne. Formerly the Dr. W.M. Together with The Garden of Cyrus. BOGDANOWICZ (1936-2017) Collection, Madison, Wisconsin, IV. Certain Miscellany Tracts. With Alphabetical Tables. U.S.A.Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of$450550varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. 1394$500750 BUTLER, Samuel (1613 - 1680)Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. 1392 Corrected and Amended.KASHMIRI ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT. An antique Quran[London; Bathurst, Johnson, Davies, etal.,]manuscript leaf in nashki script, one loose folio with recto,1775, 415pp + Cutts, designed and engraved18th century, by Mr. Hogarth. Later hard cover, half-leather 16.5 x 9.2cm. over marbled boards; new end papers.Note: This fine manuscript page is purportedly from a broken$100150 Quran scribed in Kashmir for the Nawab Amir Khan in 1727. It is of high quality with gold discs marking the ends of the verses and fine sura headings and marginal devices marking the fifth and tenth verses.PROVENANCEPrivate collection, Melbourne. Formerly the Dr. W.M. BOGDANOWICZ (1936-2017) Collection, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.$350450'