Thirteen fragments of sections of the Qur'an that between them exhibit the gradual development of kūfī into naskhī script.

The following is the historical account attached to them: "They are boldly written in black ink on vellum, the more ancient specimens having five and six lines on each page; the more recent from six to nine lines; red and green marks or spots are scattered throughout the writing, and many of them are ornamented with gilding and colours. The more ancient of these MSS. were taken from the Mosque of Amer in Fostat; the first founded in Egypt about the year 640 j.c, and many lay a fair claim to an antiquity as high as about 980 of j.c, as it appears from Syoothy (see Suyuti, No. ) [sic], in his annals of that Mosque, that 290 Mesaf were sent to it from the citadel in that year (a.h. 403). They were found there in the time of Moorad Bey, when he repaired and nearly rebuilt that mosque, prior to the invasion of the French. How much earlier a date they may claim it is impossible to say. The later manuscripts were written about the period of the introduction of the Niskhy character, and the whole collection exhibits the progress of the change."