QNL Heritage Manuscript HC.MS.2016.0032: A 15th-Century Arabic Text

A 16.7 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2016.0032 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'This is the Book of Summarizing the Effects and Wonders of the All-Powerful King' and was authored by Abd al-Rashid ibn Salih al-Bakwi, who was active in the 14th-15th centuries. The dataset is provided as a ZIP file under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Training OCR models for historical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Conducting textual analysis on 14th-15th century Arabic literature based on the digitized content.
• Studying manuscript preservation and digital archiving techniques based on the high-resolution master copy.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Large file size of 16.7 GB suggests significant visual detail.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Provided under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to a single historical manuscript.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript dated to 1803 (Hijri?), authored by a scholar active in the 14th-15th centuries.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 11:05:05; freshness should be verified.