Surah 25:0
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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 5122
1 of 3codex_00755
DateAD 800 (8th Century AD)
Script StyleKufic B.II
Current LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Found LocationUnknown
Quranic RangeQ 1:1-114:5
Context & Details
This nearly complete 8th-century Quranic manuscript is notable for its extensive preservation, containing text from the very beginning of the Quran to its final Surah. Curiously, folio 134 has been reported missing from the French National Library since approximately 2000, and no microfilm image of it survives.
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Cambridge University Library MS Add.1138
2 of 3codex_00877
DateAD 1000 (9th to 10th Century AD)
Script Stylekūfī D.Va
Current LocationCambridge University Library, Cambridge
Found LocationSinai Peninsula
Quranic RangeQ 23:1-95, Q 23:99-118, Q 24:1-19, Q 24:21-31, Q 24:31-64, Q 25:1-20
Context & Details
This fragment was acquired by Edward H. Palmer during a research trip to the Sinai Peninsula and was subsequently acquired by the University of Cambridge in 1878.
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Cambridge University Library, MS Add.1139
3 of 3codex_00874
DateAD 1100 (10th or 11th century AD)
Script StyleKūfī C II
Current LocationCambridge University Library, Cambridge
Found LocationSinai Peninsula
Quranic RangeQ 23:19-34, Q 24:60-64, Q 25:1-71, Q 26:1-227, Q 27:1-93, Q 28:1-14, Q 28:19-50, Q 28:57-88, Q 29:1-69, Q 30:16-60, Q 31:1-34, Q 32:1-6
Context & Details
This fragment is part of a collection of early Qur'an manuscripts acquired by Edward H. Palmer during a research trip to the Sinai Peninsula. It was subsequently acquired by the University of Cambridge in 1878 from Palmer and E.E. Tyrwhitt Drake.