François Déroche schreibt zum Fragment KFQ 16 (Déroche,  The Abbasid Tradition, London 1992, S. 116): "62 / Single folio / End of the 9th century AD or 10th / 13.6 x 18 cm, with 15 lines to the page / Material Parchment; the verso is the hair side / Text area 7.5 x 13.3cm / Script Style E, with mashq / Accession no. KFQ 16 / Two developments mark off group E scripts from their predecessors: the abandonment of the lower return in the independent form of alif, which assumed the form of a simple vertical stroke (see the beginning of line 4); and a change in the orientation of the tail of final mīm, which now pointed downwards. The shape of the tail varied, and here it is reduced to a short vertical stroke (verso, end of line I). / Other features of group E are its size – it is generally small, and cat.62 is a representative example in this respect – and the frequent use of mashq. In cat.62, as in cat.65, mashq was used in every line, but in other cases it was only used in the first, middle and last lines of a page. It may be that style E answered a need for a script that was closer to normal writing practices, and it may be that Qur’ans copied in this style were most often made for personal use. To some extent, this style contaminated other scripts, such as B.II (Déroche 1989, p.103) and D (see cat.64, for example). / The text Sūrat al-zukhruf (XLIII), verses 67-89. It is written in black ink. Red dots indicate the vocalization. Verses are not punctuated, but a gold Kufic hāʾ marks the end of every fifth verse, while a I.B.II device in gold, green and red plays the same role after every tenth verse. The omission of a word from verse 85 has been corrected.”

• 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.