Al-Nuzha Fi 'Ilm Al-Hisab: A 15th-Century Arabic Mathematics Manuscript

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00707 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Al-Nuzha Fi 'Ilm Al-Hisab' (The Excursion into the Science of Arithmetic) and is authored by Ibn Al-Ha'im, Ahmad bin Muhammad (died 1042 AH/AD). The dataset is a 661.7 MB ZIP file containing the digitized pages.

Use Cases

• Conducting paleographic analysis based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Studying the evolution of mathematical notation and concepts in the Arabic tradition.
• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models on historical Arabic script.
• Creating digital scholarly editions of historical scientific texts.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed examination.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing authoritative provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and legibility require manual inspection after download.
• The dataset is a single, large (661.7 MB) file; users must extract it to access contents.
• Column-level documentation is absent; the structure of any accompanying metadata files must be inferred.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (Manuscript HC.MS.00707).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored by a scholar who died in 1042 AH (approx. AD 1632).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:24:26; freshness should be verified.