Two Quranic Folios in Kufic Script from the QNL Heritage Collection

A 66.5 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03188 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset contains two folios from the Quran written in Kufic script, published under a CC0-1.0 license and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Train OCR models for ancient Arabic scripts based on the high-resolution Kufic script images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and manuscript illumination patterns from the digitized folios.
• Benchmark image super-resolution or enhancement techniques on historical document scans.
• Study the evolution of Quranic text layout and script morphology using the provided manuscript images.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the authoritative Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and specific image dimensions are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for batch processing.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.03188.

Collection Method

High-resolution digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-19 10:27:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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