Quranic Commentary Manuscript HC.MS.00750 from Qatar National Library

A 767.6 MB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.00750, an Arabic Quranic commentary from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and last updated in June 2026. The full manuscript is available for viewing in the QNL Digital Repository.

Use Cases

• Training optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution scans.
• Conducting textual analysis of Quranic exegesis (tafsir) traditions using the digitized manuscript content.
• Developing image processing techniques for the restoration and enhancement of aged manuscript pages.
• Studying the paleographic and codicological features of Islamic manuscripts from the QNL collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, a known repository.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

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.
• The specific temporal and geographic origin of the original manuscript is not detailed in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00750.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 11:02:20; freshness should be verified.