QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00515: A Treatise on Sales and Its Rulings

A 7.4 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00515 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'كتاب في البيع وأحكامه' (A Treatise on Sales and Its Rulings) and is authored by Ibrahim al-Tanukhi. The dataset was last updated on June 2, 2026, and is provided under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Training Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Conducting textual analysis of Islamic legal discourse on commercial transactions based on the manuscript's content.
• Studying the material culture and paleography of historical manuscripts based on the digital facsimile.
• Building multilingual digital library collections by linking this manuscript to related catalog records and translations.

Strengths

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

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.
• The specific time period or creation date of the original manuscript is not provided in the available metadata.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00515.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 10:24:53; freshness should be verified.