Ibn Khaldun writes: “Yusuf ordered a finely made Qur’an to be copied; it was written and embellished by Ahmad b. al-Hasan the accomplished scribe. He made it large, had its cover made with exquisite craft, and gave it many gold clasps set with pearls and rubies... and endowed it to the Holy Sanctuary.” It was sent with the pilgrim caravan in 703 AH. Ibn Marzuq saw it in Mecca after its ornaments had been stripped, and wrote: “I saw in Mecca the Qur’an that our lord Abu Yaʿqub sent, in the hand of Ibn Hasan... It remained in the dome of the mihrab, read for the sake of God, and I read in it for several years.” No trace of it is known today.
Source: Ibn Khaldun, al-ʿIbar, vol. 7, p. 299; Ibn Marzuq, al-Musnad, p. 476; both quoted by Mohamed Abdelhafid Khabta in his thesis (2011), pp. 189 and 620; and al-Manuni (1969)
