François Déroche schreibt zum Fragment KFQ 82 (Déroche,  The Abbasid Tradition, London 1992, S. 97): "44 / Two bifolios / End of the 9th century AD or first half of the 10th / 11 x 18.4cm, with 9 lines to the page / Material Parchment; the outside is the hair side / Text area 7.2 x 14 cm / Script Close to style D.Va / Accession no. KFQ 82 / During the period that Islamic book production was undergoing rapid change as a result of the growing use of paper and the subsequent introduction of the New Style, calligraphers seem to have remained faithful to the Early Abbasid scripts for copying the Qur’an. However, these scripts were not left unaffected by the changes, and minute modifications in the complex D.Va group – notably, a limited simplification of letter forms – mirror what was taking place elswhere. Here our sample is limited to four folios, and other clues, such as the bending of the shaft of ṭāʾ/ẓāʾ so typical of D.Va (see cat. 43), may have occurred on other pages of the manuscript. / The four folios contain Sūrat al-infiṭār (LXXXII), verse 8, to Sūrat al-muṭaffifīn (LXXXIII), verse 3 (folio I); Sūrat al-inshiqāq (LXXXIV), verse 4, to Sūrat al-burūj (LXXXV), verse 5 (folios 2 and 3); and Sūrat al-Aʿlā (LXXXVII), verse 4, to Sūrat al-ghāshiyah (LXXXVIII), verse 1 (folio 4). The text is written in black ink, without diacritical strokes. Red dots indicate the vocalization. The verses are punctuated by 2.2.3a devices. A gold pear-shaped ornament marks the end of every fith verse, while the end of a groups of ten verses is indicated by a 2.A.II illumination with the number of verses written out in gold script D. The same type of script, in gold outlined in black ink, was used for the three surah titles and verse counts (see folios 1b, 2b and 4b). These headings are complemented by fine marginal vignettes of different types.”

• 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.