QNL Manuscript HC.MS.00309: A Treatise on the Virtues of the Prophet

Qatar National Library provides a 309.2 MB high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.00309 from its Heritage Collection. The manuscript is titled 'A Treatise on the Virtues of the Prophet, peace be upon him' in Arabic. The dataset was last updated on June 3, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Use Cases

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) training for classical Arabic script based on high-resolution manuscript images.
• Digital preservation and analysis of historical Islamic texts from the QNL Heritage Collection.
• Textual analysis of religious treatises on the virtues of the Prophet Muhammad.
• Training image segmentation models for manuscript page layout analysis.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, a known institution.
• Shared under a permissive CC0 1.0 public domain license for unrestricted use.

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.00309).

Collection Method

Digitization of a physical manuscript.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 09:09:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Qatar (via the Qatar National Library).