Book On The Etiquette Of Visiting: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript Copy

Qatar National Library provides an 8.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00031 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Kitab fi Adab al-Ziyara' (Book on the Etiquette of Visiting), is authored by Abu Basir, Bakr ibn Muhammad. The dataset was last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Optical character recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution images.
• Textual analysis of Islamic legal and ethical traditions based on the manuscript's content.
• Digital humanities research on manuscript preservation and heritage digitization workflows.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Manuscript is from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, indicating institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain dedication license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 8.8 GB file size in ZIP format suggests a large download requirement.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.00031).

Collection Method

High-resolution digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 08:54:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely related to the Islamic world, given the manuscript's content and language.