Tafsir and Hadith: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00769 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 10.2 GB ZIP file containing the manuscript titled 'التفسير والحديث' (Tafsir and Hadith). It was last updated on 2026-05-31.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Textual analysis of Quranic exegesis (Tafsir) and Prophetic traditions (Hadith) from the digitized manuscript.
• Digital preservation and archival study of heritage collections from the Middle East.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Large file size of 10.2 GB suggests significant image detail or page count.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for broad reuse.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to the manuscript's origin and links; data structure is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00769.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:15:58.

Geography

Qatar (inferred from source institution).