QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00248: A Treatise on Monotheism

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00248 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'رسالة في التوحيد' (A Treatise on Monotheism). The dataset is a 360.7 MB ZIP file released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution scans.
• Digital preservation and analysis of manuscript layout and calligraphy.
• Textual analysis of theological content in historical Islamic manuscripts.
• Metadata enrichment for cultural heritage collections using digitized artifacts.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detail for scholarly examination.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional provenance.

Limitations

• The specific content, number of pages, and column-level data are not described in the metadata.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Data quality and readability of the manuscript text require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (Manuscript HC.MS.00248).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 10:19:38; freshness should be verified.