QNL Manuscript on Equestrianism and Veterinary Medicine

Qatar National Library provides a 2.2 GB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0019 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'ذيل كتاب في الفروسية والبيطرة على التمام والكمال', which translates to a supplement on horsemanship and veterinary medicine. The dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Historical text analysis of pre-modern equestrian and veterinary knowledge based on the manuscript's described content.
• Digital preservation studies based on the high-resolution master copy format.
• Linguistic analysis of classical Arabic technical terminology based on the text's subject matter.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Released 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.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The specific number of pages or images within the 2.2 GB archive is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (Manuscript HC.MS.2017.0019)

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 07:37:35; freshness should be verified.