Mizan al-Ta'ibin: A High-Resolution Digital Manuscript from the QNL Heritage Collection

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00291, titled 'Mizan al-Ta'ibin' by Abd al-Razzaq bin Mustafa al-Antaki. The dataset is a 1011.8 MB ZIP file containing the digitized manuscript, released under a CC0 1.0 license. It was last updated on June 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate OCR models based on high-resolution scans of historical Arabic script.
• Conduct paleographic analysis based on the manuscript's handwriting and layout.
• Perform textual analysis on the content of the 'Mizan al-Ta'ibin' manuscript.
• Support digital preservation and archival studies based on the high-resolution master copy.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed examination.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional 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 number of pages or images within the 1011.8 MB file is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, manuscript HC.MS.00291.

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 10:56:18; freshness should be verified.