[رقعة قرآنية بالخط الكوفي]

Qatar National Library provides a high-resolution digital master copy of manuscript HC.MS.03184 from its Heritage Collection. The dataset is a 488.4 MB ZIP file containing a Quranic fragment written in Kufic script. It was last updated on June 2, 2026, and is shared under a CC0 1.0 public domain license.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models for Kufic script based on the high-resolution manuscript images.
• Analyze calligraphic styles and ink degradation in historical documents based on the digital master copy.
• Develop image segmentation models to separate text from manuscript backgrounds.
• Create educational or digital humanities resources for Quranic studies based on the digitized fragment.

Strengths

• High-resolution digital master copy suitable for detailed visual analysis.
• Directly sourced from the Qatar National Library Heritage Collection, providing institutional authority.
• Released under a permissive CC0 1.0 license, allowing 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.03184).

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 07:11:48; freshness should be verified.