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7. [58] Attributed to Caliph 'Uthman, The Egyptian Library, Cairo.
8. [4] Ascribed to Caliph 'All bin AbI Talib on palimpsest. Muzesi
Kutuphanesi, Topkapi Saray, no. 36E.H.29. It has 147 folios.
9. [5] Ascribed to Caliph 'All. Amanat Khizana, Topkapi Saray, no.
33. It has only 48 folios.
10. [11] Ascribed to Caliph 'All. Amanat Khizana, Topkapi Saray, no.
25E.H.2. Contains 414 Folios.
11. [37] Ascribed to Caliph 'All. Raza Library, Rampur, India, no. 1.
Contains 343 Folios.
12. [42] Ascribed to Caliph 'All, San'a', Yemen.
13. [57] Ascribed to Caliph 'All, al-Mashhad al-Husaini, Cairo.
14. [84] Ascribed to Caliph 'All, 127 folios. Najaf, Iraq.
I5. [85] Ascribed to Caliph 'Ali. Also in Najaf, Iraq.
16. [80] Attributed to Husain b. 'All (d. 50 A.H.), 41 folios, Mashhad,
Iran.
17. [81] Attributed to Hasan b. 'All, 124 folios,Mashhad, Iran, no. 12.
18. [86] Attributed to Hasan b. 'Ali, 124 folios. Najaf, Iraq.
19. [50] A copy, 332 folios, most likely from the early first half of the
first century. The Egyptian Library, Cairo, no. 139 Masahif
20. [6] Ascribed to Khudaij b. Mu'awiya (d. 63 A.H.) written in 49 A.H.
Amanat Khizana, Topkapi Saray, no. 44. It has 226 folios.
22. [8] A Mushaf in Kufic script penned in 74 A.H. Amanat Khizana,
Topkapi Saray, no. 2. It has 406 folios.
23. [49] A copy scribed by al-Hasan al-Basri in 77 A.H. The Egyptian
Library, Cairo, no. 50 Masahif
24. [13] A copy in the Museum of Islamic Art, Istanbul, no. 358. Ac-
cording to Dr. al-Munaggid it belongs to the late first century.
25. [75] A copy with 112 folios. The British Museum, London.
26. [51] A copy with 27 folios. The Egyptian Library, Cairo, no. 247.
27. [96] Some 5000 folios from different manuscripts at the Biblio-
theque Nationale de France, many from the first century. One of
them, Arabe 328(a),has lately been published as a facsimile edition.
This is not an exhaustive list: access to private collections can dangle
precariously on the owner's temperament, and Muslims as a whole do not
enjoy any equivalent to the Munster Institute of the New Testament Textual
Research in Germany" The collection at Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzesi in
Istanbul, potentially even more significant than the San'a' fragments, still
awaits dedicated scholars. Regardless of these caveats, the list above shows

41 The duty of this office is to register every manuscript of the New Testament, be
it a 2x3cm fragment or a lectionary. See B. Metzger, The Text if the New Testament, pp.
260-263.