Four Quranic Folios: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A 94.6 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03146 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset, published by Qatar National Library, contains four folios from a Quranic manuscript. The last update to the record was on 2026-06-02.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination patterns based on the visual features of the folios.
• Benchmark image super-resolution or restoration algorithms using the provided high-resolution digital master copy.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.03146).
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.03146).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 06:07:42; freshness should be verified.