QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00312: A Treatise on Prayers and Supplications

A 387.7 MB high-resolution digital copy of manuscript HC.MS.00312 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'A Treatise on Prayers and Supplications' in Arabic. The dataset was published by Qatar National Library under a CC0 1.0 license and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Digital preservation and analysis of historical religious texts from the QNL collection.
• Linguistic study of prayer formulas and devotional language in Islamic manuscripts.
• Training image segmentation models to separate text from manuscript decorations and margins.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library's Heritage Collection, a known repository.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain dedication.
• File size of 387.7 MB suggests a detailed, medium-scale image dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical tasks.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00312.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 08:50:26; freshness should be verified.