Three Quranic Fragments: High-Resolution Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A 453.5 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03126 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset provides access to three fragments of the Quran, digitized and shared under a CC0 1.0 license. It was last updated on May 31, 2026, by Qatar National Library.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Conduct paleographic analysis of Quranic manuscripts based on the detailed visual features of the fragments.
• Develop image processing techniques for cultural heritage digitization based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Study the materiality and layout of historical religious texts based on the digital manuscript images.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, which likely provides fine detail for analysis.
• Shared under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, a known institution.

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.03126.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 09:05:39; freshness should be verified.