Quran Manuscript Pages: High-Resolution Digital Copy from Qatar National Library

A 2.9 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03162 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and was last updated on May 19, 2026. It provides direct access to digitized manuscript pages via a link to the QNL Digital Repository.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate OCR models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic calligraphy.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic manuscripts based on the visual features of the digitized pages.
• Study the layout and ornamentation of Islamic manuscripts based on the high-resolution digital master copy.
• Create educational or cultural heritage visualization tools based on the digitized manuscript pages.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, which suggests detailed visual fidelity.
• Explicitly linked to a specific cataloged manuscript (HC.MS.03162) in a known heritage collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• File size of 2.9 GB indicates a substantial amount of image data.

Limitations

• No column or sample data is available, making the internal structure and specific contents unknown prior to download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and consistency require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.03162.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript to create a high-resolution digital master copy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 10:35:50; freshness should be verified.