- Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum: W.554
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek: Faksimiledruck des Samarkand-Kodex, Sankt Petersburg 1905
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek: Petermann I 38 (Ahlwardt 339)
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek: Wetzstein II 1913 (Ahlwardt 305)
- Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek: A 455
- Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Archiv: "Saray Medina 1a" (= Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi: M 1)
- Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Archiv: "Saray Medina 1b" (= Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi: M 3)
- Gotthelf-Bergsträßer-Archiv: Meknes, Privatbibliothek des Scherifen ʿAbdarraḥmān b. Zīdān: kufischer Korankodex
- Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi: H.S. 44/32
- Kairo, al-Maktaba al-Markaziyya li-l-Maḫṭūṭāt al-Islāmiyya: Großer Korankodex
- London, British Library: Or. 2165
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Arabe 333 (b)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Arabe 333 (c)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Arabe 334 (j)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Arabe 338 (b)
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France: Arabe 348 (e)
- Rampur Raza Library: No. 1, Korankodex (ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib zugeschrieben)
- Rom, Vatikanische Apostolische Bibliothek: Vat. Ar. 1605 (XXXIX)
- Sanaa, Dār al-maḫṭūṭāt: DAM 01-25.1
- Sankt Petersburg, Russische Nationalbibliothek: Marcel 18/1
- Sankt Petersburg, Russische Nationalbibliothek: Marcel 18/2
- Sankt Petersburg, Институт восточных рукописей Российской академии наук: E-20
- Tübingen, Universitätsbibliothek: Ma VI 165
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Auf der Webseite des Museums finden sich die folgenden Angaben zu der Handschrift: "Late 3rd century AH / 9th CE; fols. 2 and fols. 4-25 added much later, probably in the 5th century AH / 11th CE, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest. This horizontal-format manuscript on parchment is a collection of illuminated fragments of the Qur'an, dating to the late third century AH / ninth CE and possibly to the fifth century AH / eleventh CE. The earlier text is written in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script, and the later text is in a hand influenced by the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style. Both are in dark brown ink and vocalized with red dots. The codex opens with an illuminated frontispiece (fol. 1a) of geometric design and closes with a similarly decorated finispiece (fol. 77b). Illuminated forms include chapter headings in gold ink with polychrome palmettes extending into the margin, tashdīds highlighted in gold ink, and verse markers for individual verses and groups of five and ten verses. The blind-tooled black goatskin binding, which is attributable to Egypt, is an important example of early Islamic bookbinding."
Literatur: Ettinghausen, Richard. "The Covers of the Morgan Manāfi' Manuscript and Other Early Persian Bookbindings." Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, edited by Dorothy Miner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954: 459-473.