QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00203: A Book on Medicine and Wisdom

Qatar National Library provides a 2.1 GB high-resolution digital master copy of the manuscript 'كتاب في الطب والحكمة' (A Book on Medicine and Wisdom) by Abd al-Wahhab al-Bakri al-Quriti. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license. It is part of the QNL Heritage Collection and is available as a ZIP file.

Use Cases

• Train Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze the structure and content of historical medical texts for digital humanities research.
• Study the paleography and material features of the manuscript based on the high-resolution images.
• Create educational or public engagement materials based on a digitized cultural heritage artifact.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• File size of 2.1 GB suggests a detailed, high-quality scan.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, making field semantics unknown.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative tasks.
• The description metadata is limited to basic catalog information; data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00203.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 11:33:50; freshness should be verified.