Manuscript HC.MS.2384: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Treatise on the Astrolabe

A 980.0 MB high-resolution digital copy of a 13th-century manuscript from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript contains a collection of treatises, including an explanation of the astrolabe by the Persian scholar Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201-1274). The files are provided in a ZIP archive under a CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Use Cases

• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models on historical Arabic script based on the high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyzing the structure and content of medieval scientific treatises based on the described collection of letters and explanations.
• Studying the historical development of astronomical instruments based on the treatise on the astrolabe mentioned in the title.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (manuscript HC.MS.2384).
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

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.
• The specific number of pages or images within the 980.0 MB archive is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.2384.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript content dates to the 13th century (author lived 1201-1274).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 07:07:15; freshness should be verified.