Al-Sadih and Al-Baghm: Digitized Arabic Manuscript from 1597

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01303 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Al-Sadih and Al-Baghm' and was authored by Ibn al-Hibariyah, Nizam al-Din Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn Muhammad, who lived from 1023/1024 to 1115/1116. The dataset is a ZIP file of 578.4 MB and was last updated on April 30, 2026.

Use Cases

• Training OCR models for historical Arabic script based on the high-resolution digital images.
• Studying the linguistic style and themes of classical Arabic poetry based on the manuscript's content.
• Analyzing the preservation and digitization quality of heritage materials based on the master copy.
• Conducting authorship or textual analysis of works by Ibn al-Hibariyah based on the provided text.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detail preservation for analysis.
• Manuscript is from a known heritage collection (QNL) with a catalog record.
• License is CC0-1.0, allowing unrestricted use.
• File size of 578.4 MB suggests a substantial digital asset.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated 1597; author lived 1023/1024-1115/1116.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 09:02:08; freshness should be verified.