Jala' al-Qulub: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from the QNL Heritage Collection

A 1.9 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00671 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Jala' al-Qulub' and authored by Muhammad bin Bir 'Ali al-Birkili. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-21 and is provided under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic script based on the high-resolution images.
• Perform digital preservation analysis on the manuscript's condition and layout.
• Conduct textual analysis on the content of the 'Jala' al-Qulub' manuscript.
• Develop image segmentation models to separate text from manuscript decorations.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Provided under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• Direct links to the full catalog record and digitized manuscript are included in the description.

Limitations

• The specific number of pages or images is unknown, making scale assessment difficult.
• Column-level documentation and sample data are unavailable, requiring manual inspection after download.
• The description metadata is limited to the manuscript's title, author, and source links.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 08:43:04.