Quran Manuscript HC.MS.02200 from Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.02200 from its Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 1.5 GB ZIP file containing a digitized manuscript of the Quran. It was last updated on 2026-05-20 and is released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination patterns based on the digital master copy.
• Conduct digital preservation research using a high-quality scan of a heritage document.
• Study the layout and structure of Quranic manuscripts from a specific collection.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suggesting detailed visual fidelity.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, an authoritative institution.
• File size of 1.5 GB indicates a substantial amount of image data.

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.02200.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 09:46:31; freshness should be verified.