QNL Heritage Manuscript HC.MS.00487: A High-Resolution Digital Copy

Qatar National Library provides a 3.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00487 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'شرح الملخص في الهيئة' (Explanation of the Summary on the Body) and is authored by Qadi Zada, Musa Chalabi bin Muhammad (d. 1436). The dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026.

Use Cases

• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Conducting paleographic analysis based on the manuscript's handwriting and calligraphic style.
• Studying the transmission of scientific knowledge in the Islamic world based on the manuscript's content.
• Creating digital scholarly editions of historical texts based on the digitized manuscript pages.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detail is preserved for analysis.
• 3.8 GB file size suggests a substantial, detailed scan of the manuscript.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library's authoritative Heritage Collection.

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.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal/source bias inherent to a single manuscript from a specific collection.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored by a scholar who died in 1436 CE.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 10:54:09; freshness should be verified.