Codex Parisino-petropolitanus

The Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus (CPP) is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Quran, attributed to the 7th century.

The largest part of the fragmentary manuscript is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, as BnF Arabe 328(ab), with 70 folia.

[4] Others agree with a date in the early 8th century CE, which Déroche also advocated in some of his earlier work.

[11] Powers says that some of these substantive variants show that the text of the Quran remained "fluid" and open to change until the end of the 7th century.

During the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798/99, French Arabist Jean-Joseph Marcel (1776–1856) acquired a first lot of folios.

A few more pages were bought by Jean-Louis Asselin de Cherville (1772–1822) when served as vice-consul in Cairo some years later.

Besides the portions bought by Marcel and de Cherville, two additional folia reached Europe separately, one is now in the Vatican Library (Vat.