Dalail al-Khayrat: High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from Qatar National Library

A high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00195 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'Dalail al-Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar' by Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (1404-1465). The dataset is provided as an 8.6 GB ZIP file under a CC0 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for classical Arabic script based on the high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze historical manuscript layout and illumination patterns based on the digital facsimile.
• Conduct textual analysis of a canonical Islamic prayer book based on the digitized content.
• Benchmark image processing techniques for cultural heritage preservation based on the high-resolution scans.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy, suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• 8.6 GB file size suggests detailed imagery or multiple files.
• Clear provenance from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license.

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 Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00195.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Time Range

Manuscript authored by al-Jazuli (1404-1465); digitization date unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 11:37:50; freshness should be verified.