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A page from the Tashkendi Qur’an
(صفحة من مصحف طاشقندي)

Title	A page from the Tashkendi Qur’an
Title Original	صفحة من مصحف طاشقندي
Publication Date:	The second century - the beginning of the third century AH / the end of the eighth century - the beginning of the ninth century AD
Publication Place	Syria, Yemen, or North Africa - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject	Ink on parchment
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	صفحة : الارتفاع : 55 سم العرض : 70 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	2004.87
Record ID	object;EPM;us;Mus23;47;ar
Library Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date	The second century - the beginning of the third century AH / the end of the eighth century - the beginning of the ninth century AD
Notes	This page, in its archaeological size, is the oldest surviving manuscript of the Qur’an in Kufic script, and shows some similarities with the previous italic (educational) script, which includes the form of the vowel (yā) in a terminal position, the end of which wraps around it to indicate the previous letters. Based on the form of the calligraphy and the explanations that remained on other pages of this Qur’an, the manuscript was attributed to Cairo, Egypt, Damascus, Syria or Sana’a in Yemen, but a third of the original manuscript is located in the Imam’s library in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.
Sample Text	“A page from the Tashkendi Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;47;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: US3 47
Seçili bibliyografya	Coran coufique de Samarcand, écrit d’après la tradition de la propre main du troisième calife Osman (644–656) qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque Impériale Publique de St. Petersbourg, St. Petersberg, 1905.Ekhtiar, Maryam, Canby, Sheila R., Haidar, Navina and Soucek, Priscilla P. (eds),Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011: 25–26, no. 1, ill. 25 (colour).Fendall, Ramsey,Islamic Calligraphy, London: Fogg, 2003: 12.George, Alain,The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy, London: Saqi, 2010: 87–88.Piotrovsky, Mikhail,Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Art of Islam, Amsterdam: Lund Humphries Publishers, 2001: 101–4.Raby, Julian (ed),The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. The Abbasid Tradition: Qur'ans of the Eighth to the Tenth Centuries A.D., London: Nour Foundation, 1992: 27–33.

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A page from the Tashkendi Qur’an

(صفحة من مصحف طاشقندي)

Publication Date The second century - the beginning of the third century AH / the end of the eighth century - the beginning of the ninth century AD

Publication Place Syria, Yemen, or North Africa - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Ink on parchment

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions صفحة : الارتفاع : 55 سم العرض : 70 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 2004.87

Record ID object;EPM;us;Mus23;47;ar

Library Location Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date The second century - the beginning of the third century AH / the end of the eighth century - the beginning of the ninth century AD

Notes This page, in its archaeological size, is the oldest surviving manuscript of the Qur’an in Kufic script, and shows some similarities with the previous italic (educational) script, which includes the form of the vowel (yā) in a terminal position, the end of which wraps around it to indicate the previous letters. Based on the form of the calligraphy and the explanations that remained on other pages of this Qur’an, the manuscript was attributed to Cairo, Egypt, Damascus, Syria or Sana’a in Yemen, but a third of the original manuscript is located in the Imam’s library in Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

Sample Text “A page from the Tashkendi Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;47;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: US3 47

Seçili bibliyografya Coran coufique de Samarcand, écrit d’après la tradition de la propre main du troisième calife Osman (644–656) qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque Impériale Publique de St. Petersbourg, St. Petersberg, 1905.Ekhtiar, Maryam, Canby, Sheila R., Haidar, Navina and Soucek, Priscilla P. (eds),Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011: 25–26, no. 1, ill. 25 (colour).Fendall, Ramsey,Islamic Calligraphy, London: Fogg, 2003: 12.George, Alain,The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy, London: Saqi, 2010: 87–88.Piotrovsky, Mikhail,Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Art of Islam, Amsterdam: Lund Humphries Publishers, 2001: 101–4.Raby, Julian (ed),The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. The Abbasid Tradition: Qur'ans of the Eighth to the Tenth Centuries A.D., London: Nour Foundation, 1992: 27–33.