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Part of the Qur’an
(جزء من مصحف)

Title	Part of the Qur’an
Title Original	جزء من مصحف
Publication Date:	Approximately 250 - 300 AH / approximately 850 - 900 AD
Publication Place	Near East - Austrian National Library (ANL)
Subject	Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, kufic calligraphy
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	19قطعة
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	Mixtus 814
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus24;11;ar
Library Location	Austrian National Library (ANL)
Date	Approximately 250 - 300 AH / approximately 850 - 900 AD
Notes	This fragment of the Qur’an is a single leaf written in angular/italic Kufi script on parchment and can be dated to around 250-300 AH/around 850-900 AD within the Near East region. It is part of a series of 19 fragments from multiple manuscripts, referred to as Codex Mixtus 814. The horizontal format, the literal Kufic calligraphy, and the rich collage decoration indicate that it belongs to the first Qur’anic manuscripts of a particularly high quality. The text is written in black-brown ink with colored dots and marks for the provisions of Tajweed and distinctive signs, respectively. These types of Qur’an fragments are very rare due to the poor state of damage to which such early manuscripts were exposed.
Sample Text	Theresa Zischkin “Fragment of a Qur’an” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;11;ar
Cilt	All fragments were originally kept in a wooden box, possibly from the 19th century. Since 1980, some of them are kept between panes of acrylic glass.
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN
Seçili bibliyografya	Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften II. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 5, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1992: 194-195.

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Part of the Qur’an

(جزء من مصحف)

Publication Date Approximately 250 - 300 AH / approximately 850 - 900 AD

Publication Place Near East - Austrian National Library (ANL)

Subject Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, kufic calligraphy

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 19قطعة

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID Mixtus 814

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus24;11;ar

Library Location Austrian National Library (ANL)

Date Approximately 250 - 300 AH / approximately 850 - 900 AD

Notes This fragment of the Qur’an is a single leaf written in angular/italic Kufi script on parchment and can be dated to around 250-300 AH/around 850-900 AD within the Near East region. It is part of a series of 19 fragments from multiple manuscripts, referred to as Codex Mixtus 814. The horizontal format, the literal Kufic calligraphy, and the rich collage decoration indicate that it belongs to the first Qur’anic manuscripts of a particularly high quality. The text is written in black-brown ink with colored dots and marks for the provisions of Tajweed and distinctive signs, respectively. These types of Qur’an fragments are very rare due to the poor state of damage to which such early manuscripts were exposed.

Sample Text Theresa Zischkin “Fragment of a Qur’an” in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus24;11;ar

Cilt All fragments were originally kept in a wooden box, possibly from the 19th century. Since 1980, some of them are kept between panes of acrylic glass.

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Theresa ZISCHKIN

Seçili bibliyografya Duda, Dorothea,Islamische Handschriften II. Persische Handschriften, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, vol. 5, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1992: 194-195.