Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat: Ibn Sina Manuscript Digitized by Qatar National Library

A 1.5 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.2012.0002 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat' (Remarks and Admonitions) and authored by the polymath Ibn Sina (Avicenna), who lived from 980 to 1037. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Analyze the structure and layout of medieval Islamic manuscripts based on the digitized pages.
• Conduct textual analysis on the philosophical and medical works of Ibn Sina from the digitized content.
• Develop image segmentation models to separate text from marginalia or illustrations in heritage documents.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• The 1.5 GB size suggests it is primarily image data, limiting direct textual analysis without extraction.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.2012.0002.

Collection Method

High-resolution digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored between 980 and 1037; digitization date unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 09:15:30; freshness should be verified.