Kitab al-Qanun Book III: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript

A 7.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2017.0033 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Kitab al-Qanun. Al-Kitab al-Thalith' (The Canon of Medicine, Book Three) and is authored by Ibn Sina (Avicenna). The dataset is provided by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training based on high-resolution images of historical Arabic script.
• Digital preservation analysis based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Historical text analysis based on the content of Ibn Sina's 'The Canon of Medicine'.
• Manuscript metadata enrichment based on the provided catalog links.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digitized manuscript are provided.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

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.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 11:13:43; freshness should be verified.