Al-Shifa: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript on the Prophet's Rights, 12th Century

12.1 GB of high-resolution digital scans of manuscript HC.MS.00198 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa', is a 12th-century work by the scholar Qadi Iyad (1083-1149). It is provided under a CC0 1.0 public domain dedication, facilitating unrestricted use.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Historical and theological text analysis of a foundational Islamic legal and biographical work.
• Digital preservation and archival study of manuscript structure and calligraphy.
• Multimodal analysis combining visual page layout with transcribed textual content.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Large 12.1 GB file size indicates detailed imagery.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable; data structure must be inferred after download.
• The description provides metadata about the manuscript's origin but not about the digitized files' internal organization.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for some quantitative tasks.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00198.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical historical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored in the 12th century (1083-1149).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 11:42:31; freshness should be verified.