Arabic Manuscript of Marvelous Tales and Strange Stories from 1778

A 1778 manuscript titled 'Kitab Manaqib wa al-Hikayat al-Ajiba Ghariba' by Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Jahi. The dataset is a 2.8 GB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00034 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, released under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition models based on the high-resolution scans of handwritten Arabic script.
• Analyze narrative structures and themes based on the manuscript's content of marvelous tales and strange stories.
• Conduct historical linguistic analysis based on the 18th-century Arabic text.
• Perform digital preservation and restoration studies based on the high-resolution master copy.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed analysis.
• 2.8 GB file size suggests detailed imagery or extensive text content.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.

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

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript from the QNL Heritage Collection.

Time Range

1778

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 10:28:41; freshness should be verified.