The Astronomical Poem: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript Copy

A 2.2 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0061 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'The Astronomical Poem' and is authored by Abu Ali ibn Abi al-Husayn Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi al-Razi. The dataset was last updated on June 1, 2026.

Use Cases

• Digitally preserve and analyze high-resolution manuscript images based on the master copy.
• Conduct textual analysis of the astronomical poem based on the Arabic text content.
• Study the intersection of poetry and astronomy in historical Islamic scholarship based on the manuscript's described subject.
• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on the high-resolution images.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy of a historical manuscript.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication license.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digitized repository are provided.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 08:25:45; freshness should be verified.