Khulāṣat al-Ḥisāb: A 17th-Century Arabic Mathematics Manuscript

Qatar National Library provides a 1.7 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00996 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript, titled 'Khulāṣat al-Ḥisāb' (The Summary of Arithmetic), was authored by Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (1547–1621). The dataset is available under a CC0 1.0 license and was last updated on May 31, 2026.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Digital preservation and analysis of historical scientific texts based on the high-resolution master copy.
• Historical study of Islamic mathematics and astronomy based on the content of the manuscript.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy of a historical manuscript.
• Dataset size of 1.7 GB suggests detailed image files.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

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.00996.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored between 1547 and 1621.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 08:22:51; freshness should be verified.