Al-Risalah Manuscript: Biographies and Certifications of Scholars

A 396.3 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00667 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Al-Risalah fi Dhikr al-'Ulama wa al-Ijazat', was authored by Mahmud Jamal al-Din al-Khalidi al-Hamzawi. The dataset was last updated on April 30, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze biographical and scholarly lineage networks based on mentions of scholars and certifications.
• Study historical Arabic manuscript structure and content based on the high-resolution digital copy.
• Train OCR or text recognition models on historical Arabic script based on the digitized manuscript images.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy ensures detailed visual fidelity.
• Direct provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a CC0-1.0 license, allowing unrestricted use.

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 dataset is a single 396.3 MB ZIP file; internal structure and file formats are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection (HC.MS.00667)

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 09:13:23; freshness should be verified.