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A page from the Qur’an
(صفحة من القرآن)

Title	A page from the Qur’an
Title Original	صفحة من القرآن
Publication Date:	The first half of the first century AH / the second half of the seventh century AD
Publication Place	Hijaz Province, the Arabian Peninsula, or Syria - David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Subject	Early Islamic period
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	Inv.no. 86/2003
Record ID	object;EPM;dn;Mus21;1;ar
Library Location	David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date	The first half of the first century AH / the second half of the seventh century AD
Notes	This paper is one of the oldest surviving copies of the Qur’an. It is made of palimpsest parchment: the original text is scraped off and a new text is written on parchment. The original text has been redacted and can be read as a shadow under the later text. Both texts are from the second surah of the Qur’an, “Al-Baqarah,” and both texts were written in the Hijazi script, which is the oldest Arabic script used in writing the Qur’an.
Sample Text	“A Page from the Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;dn;Mus21;1;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: DN 01

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A page from the Qur’an

(صفحة من القرآن)

Publication Date The first half of the first century AH / the second half of the seventh century AD

Publication Place Hijaz Province, the Arabian Peninsula, or Syria - David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark

Subject Early Islamic period

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID Inv.no. 86/2003

Record ID object;EPM;dn;Mus21;1;ar

Library Location David Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date The first half of the first century AH / the second half of the seventh century AD

Notes This paper is one of the oldest surviving copies of the Qur’an. It is made of palimpsest parchment: the original text is scraped off and a new text is written on parchment. The original text has been redacted and can be read as a shadow under the later text. Both texts are from the second surah of the Qur’an, “Al-Baqarah,” and both texts were written in the Hijazi script, which is the oldest Arabic script used in writing the Qur’an.

Sample Text “A Page from the Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;dn;Mus21;1;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: DN 01