Quranic Fragment Manuscript HC.MS.03202 from Qatar National Library

A 176.8 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03202 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset is a single ZIP file containing a digitized Quranic fragment, published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license. The record was last updated on 2026-05-19.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution manuscript image.
• Conduct digital paleography studies on Quranic fragments based on the manuscript's visual features.
• Develop image segmentation models to separate text from background in historical documents based on the high-resolution scan.
• Analyze the artistic and calligraphic styles of Quranic manuscripts based on the visual data.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.03202.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 10:31:18; freshness should be verified.