Angaben aus dem Katalog der arabischen Papyri des Pennsylvania University Museums (Philaldelphia) von Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1886-1967), Arabic Papyri in the University Museum in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Rom 1981, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, S. 154-155 (Eintrag Nr. 121): "Inv. E. 16264 C. 2nd-3rd century A.H:/8th-9th century A.D. ? Cream colored, moderately thick parchment. 26.5 x 26 cm. On the verso, fifteen lines are written in brown ink. The original width is almost fully preserved except for some damage in the margins, the upper margin is also partially preserved. The lower side is much damaged, espescially on the right corner; however, no more lines were presumably written on the original sheet. The extant writing is in a fairly good condition, except for some fading in the ink and a small hole in the middle.   From the Ellen W. Harrison Collection.   Kor. 30,1-9 (8) kāna (ʿāqibatu) The script looks old. It differs from that of the preceding numbers in having its strokes straight, with no slanting towards the right. The ḥāʾ lies horizontally on the line. The loop of isolated and final nūn is less rounded. The general aspect is highly reminiscent of nos. 10-14 in the Chicago Collection (see The Rise of the North Arabic Script, pp. 64-67, Plates XVI-XIX), no. 39 in B. Moritz, Arabic Paleagraphy, Cairo 1905, and nos. 8 and 40 in the Vatican Library. Cod. Vat. Ar. 1605 (see G. Levi Della Vida, Frammenti coranici in cattere cufico nella Biblioteca Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 1947 [Studi i Testi 132], p. 7 and 30, Plate 3). However, the use of diacritical signs is less developed, and they are set only occasionally. Vocalization by red dots is more widely, although not completely, employed. Words are freely divided at the end of the lines. No verse dividers are used. On the recto, which was originally blank, a later hand has inscribed the title ʾl-ǧzū ʾl-ḫāmis "Volume Five" on top of the sheet, followed by a row of five small black circles. Since in the occurent liturgical partition of the Koran into thirty sections Sūra 30 is near the beginning of the twenty-first section, the aborementioned title must refer to a partition into six sections, which is far from being common (see Geschichte des Qorāns III, p. 261) but is found, e.g., in no. 3 of the Chicago Collection (see The Rise of the North Arabic Script, p. 61) and in no. 32 of Moritz's Arabic Paleography. In the middle of the recto we find the following waqf statement (on this subject see The Rise of the North Arabic Script, pp. 57-58) written rather carelessly in a large calligraphic Naskhī: ḥabbasa ʿala ʾl- ǧāmʿi ʾl- muʿizzī "(This copy) was donated  to the Muʿizzī Cathedral Mosque". By this term the famous al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, dedicated in Ramaḍān 361 A. H. / June 972 A. D. in the name of the Fatimite Caliph al-Muʿizz, is probably meant."

• Levi Della Vida, Giorgio: Arabic Papyri in the University Museum in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). Accademnia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma 1981.