Al-Ramzah Al-Shafiyah: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A 1.0 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00485 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Al-Ramzah Al-Shafiyah' and is authored by Al-Khazraji Al-Andalusi, Abdullah bin Al-Hamad Al-Ansari. It was uploaded to figshare by Qatar National Library and last updated on June 2, 2026.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution images.
• Digital preservation and archival study of historical manuscripts from the QNL Heritage Collection.
• Linguistic and philological analysis of the text 'Al-Ramzah Al-Shafiyah'.
• Training computer vision models for manuscript page segmentation and layout analysis.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual inspection.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, a known institution.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00485.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 10:37:06; freshness should be verified.