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Limits RegistryTwo parchment leaves of the Quran in the Mingana Collection at the University of Birmingham, UK, were radiocarbon dated by the University of Oxford in 2015 to between 568 and 645 CE with 95.4% probability, placing them among the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts. The range overlaps the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (c. 570–632), though the date applies to the animal skin rather than to the writing itself.
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Two parchment leaves of the Quran in the Mingana Collection at the University of Birmingham, UK, were radiocarbon dated by the University of Oxford in 2015 to between 568 and 645 CE with 95.4% probability, placing them among the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts. The range overlaps the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (c. 570–632), though the date applies to the animal skin rather than to the writing itself.
The earliest end of the radiocarbon date range for the parchment of the oldest well-documented Quran manuscript leaves.
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Limits Registry. LR-OLDEST-RADIOCARBON-DATED-QURAN-LEAVES. Among the oldest radiocarbon-dated Quran manuscript leaves. 2026.