Book of Islamic Theology Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02201 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The 8.0 GB ZIP file contains a digitized manuscript titled 'Kitab fi al-'Aqa'id' (Book of Theology). The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyzing the structure and content of historical Islamic theological texts.
• Studying manuscript digitization and preservation techniques in digital heritage projects.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, indicating institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain 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.02201.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 09:50:19; freshness should be verified.