HC.MS.00449: 1765 Arabic Mathematical Manuscript Commentary

Qatar National Library provides a 792.8 MB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.00449 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is a 1765 commentary titled 'Ḥāshiyat al-ʿAllāmah ʿalá Sharḥ Lumʿ al-Ḥisāb lil-Mārdīnī' authored by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Qashī. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Historical analysis of mathematical knowledge transmission based on the commentary's content and structure.
• Digital preservation and archival study based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Linguistic analysis of 18th-century Arabic scholarly writing based on the manuscript text.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.00449).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated 1765.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 07:58:48; freshness should be verified.