François Déroche schreibt zum Fragment KFQ 38 (Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, London 1992, S. 101): "49 / Two folios / End of the 9th century AD or first half of the 10th / 9.5 x 16 cm (folio I) and 9.3 x 16 cm (folio 2), with 5 lines to the page / Material Parchment; the outside is the hair side. / Text area 4.8 x 10.4 cm / Script Style D.Va, with features of D.Vb / Accession no. KFQ 38 / In this form of D.Va, the vertical strokes have begun to take on a more prominent role. The same feature may be observed in style D.Vb (see cat.57, for example), and its occurrence here may be a first stage in the evolution of this second variant of D.V. / The text is Sūrat al-baqarah (II), verses 35-39 and 55-58. It is written in dark brown ink, with diacritical dots added in black ink. Red dots indicate the vocalization. Individual verses are not punctuated, but a gold hāʾ marks the end of a group of five verses (folio I, recto, line 5). / These two folios once formed part of the same quire. The narrow selvedge on their inner sides suggests that they were used as a substitute for a bifolio in assembling the quire.”
- Déroche, François: The Abbasid Tradition. Qurʾans of the 8th to the 10th centuries AD. Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, London 1992.