Quran Manuscript Part 20: High-Resolution Digital Copy from Qatar National Library

A 3.4 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.01609 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset contains the twentieth part (Juz' 20) of the Quran and is provided under a CC0 1.0 license. It was last updated on May 20, 2026, by Qatar National Library on the figshare platform.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic calligraphy.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic manuscripts based on the detailed visual features.
• Study the digitization and preservation of cultural heritage materials based on the master copy methodology.
• Develop image processing techniques for enhancing and analyzing scanned historical documents.

Strengths

• 3.4 GB file size suggests high-resolution, detailed imagery suitable for close analysis.
• Direct provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection provides authoritative source material.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred 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; specific content details require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.01609.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 08:12:23; freshness should be verified.