A particularly small Qur'an section dating from 393 AH and still with its original Persian binding is expected to make £60-80,000 ($100-140,000).

With the original binding lost, the book was split over the years into four volumes.

However, the original binding of the manuscript was destroyed.

It has been damaged over time, and the original binding is now lost.

Over 600 were printed before 1600, and many retain their original bindings.

Which meant that the original bindings had been removed, thus reducing the books considerably in value.

Some librarians believe that it is a hasty practice which favors cost over artifactual value, as original bindings may potentially be restorable.

The codex is still bound in its original binding of brown leather with stamped ornamentation.

Both volumes are in the original bindings.

At least five thousand years old, for they had formed part of the original binding of a book which had been made then.