Quran Manuscript HC.MS.03133: High-Resolution Digital Master from Qatar National Library

333.4 MB of high-resolution digital images of manuscript HC.MS.03133 from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection. The dataset is a digital master copy of a Quran manuscript, provided by Qatar National Library and last updated on 2026-05-31. It is available as a ZIP file under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate manuscript image segmentation models based on the high-resolution digital master copy.
• Develop optical character recognition (OCR) models for historical Arabic calligraphy based on the manuscript pages.
• Conduct digital paleographic analysis of Quranic scripts based on the high-resolution images.
• Create educational or public engagement materials for cultural heritage based on the digitized manuscript.

Strengths

• 333.4 MB file size suggests a high-resolution image collection.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, indicating institutional provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 license for broad reuse.

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.03133.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript to create a high-resolution digital master copy.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-31 09:07:08; freshness should be verified.