ANKARA- The manuscripts of an 800-year-old Quran are being exhibited at theTokat Museum in northern Turkey.

Provincial Director of Culture and Tourism Adem Cakir told Anadolu Agency:“This Quran is the oldest written work being exhibited at our museums inAnatolia.”

He noted that the Quran was found in Tokat and then restored in centralprovince of Konya in 2010. After one year of restoration work themanuscripts began exhibiting at the museum in 2011, he added.

The colophon of the Quran indicates it was written in 1190, Cakir said andadded, “It is a rare work. Translation of the Arabic verses is also writtenunderneath the (Arabic) text.”